Montgomery bus boycott

Today, Dec. 5th, is the 60th Anniversary of the beginning of the Montgomery Bus Boycott which lasted for 381 days. It was a monumental boycott and one of the longest in African American history if...

For 382 days, almost the entire African American population of Montgomery, Alabama, including leaders Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks, refused to ride on segregated buses. The protests marked a turning point in the American civil rights movement.

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Rosa Parks and Claudette Colvin Neither Claudette Colvin nor Rosa Parks were the first African American women (or men) to refuse to give up their seat on the United States of America’s segreg…

On Rosa Parks birthday, her great niece Urana McCauley says it's time to move beyond the quiet seamstress caricature.

As the nation observes Martin Luther King Jr. Day, many who went to Selma — including those who worked or grew up in Kansas City — believe the journey to equal rights continues to prove long and difficult, but also transformative and self-renewing.

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Berkeley professor Ula Taylor discusses how the 1955-56 bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama, was led by a group of black women activists working behind the scenes — the Women's Political Council

The Montgomery Bus Boycott begin. December 5th,1955