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 ...

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.

Montgomery businessman Loyd Howard attended a mass meeting at Holt Street Baptist Church on Dec. 5, 1955, that galvanized the Black community behind the bus boycott that started that day.

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 ...

On December 1st, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, a bus driver asked four black passengers including Rosa Parks to give up their seats to white riders. (Soundbite of interview) ...

67 years: Montgomery reflects on Rosa Parks, Bus Boycott and struggle against segregation Starting Dec. 1, the city will host several days of events honoring civil rights heroes and their fight to ...

The story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott is not just about its leaders, ... It would take half a year before a federal district court ruled that Alabama's segregation law for buses was ...

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 ...

Montgomery, Alabama, is marking the 67th anniversary of the Montgomery Bus Boycott with a series of celebrations and events. Rosa Parks, an African American woman, was arrested Dec. 1, 1955, after ...

Despite her signature role in the origins of the Montgomery bus boycott, Lucille Times was for decades unrecognized for her contribution. Troy King, a former attorney general of Alabama who became ...

Residents, dignitaries and visitors in Montgomery, Alabama, are participating in the second day of celebrations marking the 50th anniversary of the Montgomery bus boycott.