American civil rights activist Rosa Parks (center, in dark coat and hat) waits to board a bus at the end of the Montgomery bus boycott, Montgomery, Alabama, Dec. 26, 1956.

The flyer called for a one-day boycott, on Dec. 5, according to the book “Daybreak of Freedom: The Montgomery Bus Boycott,” by Stewart Burns. Nixon helped enlist Black pastors for the effort ...

This photo taken Monday, Nov. 17, 2015, shows a driver walking past a city bus in Montgomery, Ala., near the 60th anniversary of a bus boycott widely credited with helping spark the modern civil ...

Montgomery Bus Boycotts lasted from December 5,1955, to December 26, 1956, and brought civil rights leaders like Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, Jr. to the fore.

On December 1, 1955, a 42-year-old African-American seamstress named Rosa Parks refused to surrender her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama, city bus to a white man. With that simple act of rebellion ...

After the Montgomery bus boycott, Parks participated in the 1963 March on Washington and went on to serve on the board of Planned Parenthood. She received the Congressional Gold Medal in 1999. 2.

The Montgomery bus boycott, which lasted 381 days, demonstrated growing resistance to segregation. It did not end segregated buses in Montgomery right away—that required success in the federal ...

The church was the site of a meeting that launched the bus boycott after the arrest of Rosa Parks. The boycott began Dec. 5, 1955, making 2024 the 69th celebration, and events were held throughout ...

Sixty years after the Montgomery Bus Boycott, the capital city's bus system is in disrepair. Civil Rights activist Rosa Parks was arrested in December 1955 when she refused to give up her seat to ...

Montgomerians marked the anniversary of the Montgomery Bus Boycott on Monday with several events, including a ribbon cutting for the Holt Street Baptist Church Historical Museum. The church was ...

Montgomery’s city bus system is getting its most significant overhaul in decades thanks to a $6.5 million federal grant. The city plans to use the CARES Act money to buy 11 new or replacement ...