The City of Montgomery is set to commemorate the 69th anniversary of the Montgomery Bus Boycott on Monday. The city will also ...
The City of Montgomery is commemorating the 69th anniversary of the Montgomery Bus Boycott and Civil Rights trailblazer, Rosa ...
The Alabama cities of Montgomery and Huntsville will honor the 69th anniversary of the bus boycotts on Rosa Parks Day.
Within days, calls for a boycott spread throughout Montgomery. The Montgomery Bus Boycott not only catapulted figures like Parks and Martin Luther King Jr. to national fame, but also galvanized ...
She worked to promote civil rights before the Montgomery bus boycott. She did this by: helping black people to register to vote in elections, which was very difficult under the Jim Crow laws ...
Black-owned newspapers and church ministers spread the news of the boycott. On December 5, around 40,000 Black bus riders — representing at least 75% of Montgomery's bus ridership — refused to ...