Montgomery to commemorate 69th anniversary of Bus Boycott
The City of Montgomery is set to commemorate the 69th anniversary of the Montgomery Bus Boycott on Monday.The city will also ...
Alabama Cities To Honor Anniversary Of Historic Bus Boycott And Rosa Parks Day With Free Bus Rides
The Alabama cities of Montgomery and Huntsville will honor the 69th anniversary of the bus boycotts on Rosa Parks Day.
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Black taxi drivers helped fuel the Montgomery Bus Boycott, even as they faced arrests and police pressure
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 ...
VIA to offer free rides on Wednesday in honor of Rosa Parks
VIA Metropolitan Transit will offer fare-free service on Wednesday in observance of Rosa Parks Day, honoring the civil rights ...
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Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott
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 ...
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Black taxi drivers helped fuel the Montgomery Bus Boycott, even as they faced arrests and police pressure
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 ...