Mary Jamila Dozier-Jones was only 8 years old when she started the Montgomery Gospel Trio with Minnie Hendricks-McKents and ...

She worked to promote civil rights before the Montgomery bus boycott. She did this by: helping black people to register to vote in elections, which was very difficult under the Jim Crow laws ...

igniting the 13-month Montgomery Bus Boycott that ultimately led to the Supreme Court ruling declaring segregation on public transportation unconstitutional. But there’s more to know about what ...

Rosa Parks arrives at circuit court to be arraigned in the Montgomery bus boycott on Feb. 24, 1956 in Montgomery, Ala. The boycott started on Dec. 5, 1955 when Parks was fined for refusing to move ...

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 ...

leading to the Montgomery bus boycott and the banning of segregated buses in Alabama. Ruby Bridges and the Little Rock Nine being amongst the first Black children to attend schools that had ...

Parks' arrest led to a year-long bus boycott by Montgomery's Black residents, and eventually the Supreme Court ruling that bus segregation was unconstitutional. On Feb. 23, 1956, a New York Times ...

He received national attention for his role in the 1955-56 Montgomery Bus Boycott to end segregated ... prison for teaching nonviolent tactics to children in Jackson, MS, although she was four ...