The Montgomery bus boycott is remembered as one of the earliest mass civil rights protests in American history. It's also the event that helped to make both Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr.
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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The Montgomery Bus Boycott began in December 1955, when a lady called Rosa Parks was arrested and fined for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white man. This act of defiance set the wheels ...
(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 ...
"I'm a part of the Montgomery bus boycott story," she said. "Nine months before Rosa Parks was arrested, I was arrested for the same thing," she said. She was in handcuffs, at 15 years old ...