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 ...

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.

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.

It was sent to Montgomery Mayor William Gayle in Feb. 1954, nearly two years before the bus boycott. The letter listed demands and the dissatisfaction black riders were having with the bus company.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Lloyd Howard had a front row seat to history, growing up as a fearless 14-year-old in the segregated south, working at his father's taxi stand in downtown Montgomery.

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 ...