The Montgomery bus boycott was a large civil rights demonstration that saw African Americans in the Alabama city refuse to ride public buses in protest of segregated seating. Considered the first ...

In 2005, the Montgomery Advertiser released a series of interviews and stories to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, which officially began on Dec. 5, 1955.

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 Dec. 1, 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery City Bus, sparking a year-long boycott by blacks of the Montgomery buses, and a key ...

The Montgomery bus boycott began when 42-year-old Rosa Parks, who had been a civil rights activist for more than two decades, refused to give up her bus seat to a white man on December 1, 1955.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Thursday marks the 50th anniversary of the Montgomery bus boycott. Ed Gordon looks back at the seminal protest and its impact with Rep. John Lewis (D-GA), Fred Shuttlesworth, who helped organize ...

Montgomery businessman Loyd Howard was 14 when he joined an overflow crowd at Holt Street Baptist Church for a meeting that would unite the Black community behind a boycott of the city’s bus ...

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 ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Montgomery is marking the 66th anniversary of the Montgomery Bus Boycott with a series of celebrations and events next week.