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Children at E. D. Nixon Elementary school launched the city and county’s celebration of the 60th anniversary of the Montgomery Bus Boycott on Monday with history readings, dancing and singing.
A number of celebrations will mark the 50th anniversary of the 1955 bus boycott in Montgomery, Ala., including a re-enactment of the arrest of Rosa Parks and a children's march.
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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.
Mike Wiley, The Playwright, cleverly foretold the story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott by randomly choosing audience members to portray historic African American heroes. It was entertaining, but ...
Alabama State University will present a dramatic stage play inspired by the Montgomery Bus Boycott, which some historians cite as the birth of the modern civil rights movement.
In December of 1955, when the Montgomery Bus Boycott started, the children found themselves at the center. Jones said the trio started hosting community talent shows where their voices did more ...
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.
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 ...
Children's Theatre of Charlotte is proud to announce the highly anticipated return of Mike Wiley Productions in “Tired Souls: The Montgomery Bus Boycott,” a powerful theatrical production that ...