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 ...

The activist’s refusal to give up her seat to a white passenger on a segregated bus in Alabama helped fuel the Civil Rights Movement.

leading to the Montgomery bus boycott and the banning of segregated buses in Alabama. Ruby Bridges and the Little Rock Nine being amongst the first Black children to attend schools that had ...

But the day before, Parks’ activist friends had gotten busy organizing a boycott of Montgomery’s bus system. The day after Parks’ conviction, the city’s Black community carpooled ...

(WSFA) - The City of Montgomery is set to commemorate the 69th anniversary of the Montgomery Bus Boycott on Monday. The city will also mark Rosa Parks Day, celebrated on Dec. 1, which honors the ...

were among the leaders of the 1955-56 Montgomery Bus Boycott organized in response ... up to the mob to save the men, women, and children in the sanctuary. When reporters asked Abernathy to ...

Along with the Montgomery Bus Boycott of 1955 and the student lunch counter sit-ins of 1960, the Freedom Rides were one of the earliest demonstrations that Gandhian principles of nonviolence could ...