1955-- Rosa Parks refuses to move to the back of a Montgomery, Alabama, bus as required by city ordinance; boycott follows ... Church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama, leaves four young black ...

She became active in the New York City chapter of CORE during the late 1950s, helping to organize a boycott ... a bus driver willing to take them further, and they flew from Birmingham, AL ...

As a child growing up in segregated Birmingham, Alabama ... In 1957, in the wake of the Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott, Shuttlesworth worked with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and other Black ...

(CNN)-- In a stinging passage from a "Letter from Birmingham City Jail," the Rev ... King became prominent after leading the Montgomery bus boycott in 1956, but he was already gaining a name ...

A state commission Tuesday selected an engineering firm to begin site development for the Rosa Parks and Helen Keller statues ...

It was at the heart of the Civil Rights Movement, and landmarks like the Rosa Parks Museum and the Birmingham ... Alabama, played a significant role in the Civil Rights Movement, and it was the ...

As a site of struggle itself, Montgomery, AL makes a perfect host for “A ... He organized the 1956 Montgomery bus boycott from his offices downtown in the former slave trader’s pen.

Civil rights campaigns 1945-1965 Notable events in the civil rights movement in the 1950s were the Montgomery Bus Boycott and ... Rides and protests in Birmingham, Alabama. Ghettos and black ...

The astonishing pace of Birmingham's growth during the period from 1881 through 1920, earned the city its nicknames The Magic City and The Pittsburgh of the South. Today Birmingham ranks as one of ...

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She became active in the New York City chapter of CORE during the late 1950s, helping to organize a boycott ... a bus driver willing to take them further, and they flew from Birmingham, AL ...