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 ...

What will our church do, if people in our congregation and community lose some or all of their Medicaid funding?” ...

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

There was the year-long Montgomery bus boycott, the lawsuit challenging discrimination on public transportation and finally the Supreme Court decision that outlawed segregation on buses.

helped spark the Montgomery Bus Boycott. “This year, by it being the 55th anniversary of Bloody Sunday, we wanted to talk about Amelia Boynton (a champion for voting rights who was among those beaten ...

Jr. were among the leaders of the 1955-56 Montgomery Bus Boycott organized in response to the arrest of Rosa Parks. In 1961, Abernathy's First Baptist Church was the site of the May 21 "siege ...

Claudette Colvin and Rosa Parks refusing to give up their seats on buses when white people demanded them, leading to the Montgomery bus boycott and the banning of segregated buses in Alabama.

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 ...