On Feb. 28, Arts on the Square will be held in downtown Montgomery ... whose refusal to move on a Montgomery city bus on Dec. 1, 1955, helped spark the Montgomery Bus Boycott. “This year, by it being ...

During the bus boycott, though, was a group of three girls who used their gift of song to carry those efforts. Mary Jamila Dozier-Jones was only 8 years old when she started the Montgomery Gospel ...

In December 1955, Rosa Parks’ refusal as a Black woman to give up her seat on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama, ...

"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 ...

Some people, such as Rosa Parks, lost their job for supporting the boycott. Some leaders, such as Dr Martin Luther King Jnr, were violently attacked by white supremacists and mistreated by the police.

Our most successful boycott was the Montgomery Bus Boycott. After Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to yield her seat to a white passenger, the Montgomery Black community rallied around her and ...

The fate of the Hanceville Police Department remains uncertain after the city council on Thursday delayed a vote on the possible ending of the department following a dispatcher’s death, multiple ...

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 ...

Her arrest led to the Montgomery Bus Boycott and the end of transport segregation in America. It also propelled Martin Luther King into the media spotlight. Look in more detail at the civil rights ...

This movement points back to the success of Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott in Alabama in the 1950s and the Civil Rights protests of the 1960s. This movement has ties to the ...

King first demonstrated the efficacy of passive resistance in 1955–56 while helping to lead the prolonged bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama, that succeeded in dismantling bus segregation laws. King’s ...