Alabama, home in December 1956 with gospel music playing in the background when a radio announcement declared the Montgomery Bus Boycott was over. Gilmore recalled the monumental moment during a ...

Civil rights campaigners in Montgomery, Alabama, met at the Holt Street Baptist ... Association was founded to organise the 1955 bus boycott. The MIA was led by Dr Martin Luther King Jnr.

The convocation speaker will be actress and retired Alabama State University educator ... of locations connected to Rosa Parks, the Montgomery Bus Boycott and other civil rights tourism spots.

There was the year-long Montgomery bus boycott, the lawsuit challenging discrimination ... who grew up in the tiny Alabama town of Union Springs. “Mama taught us to obey.” ...

MONTGOMERY, AL - APRIL 26: Veric Lang ... He organized the 1956 Montgomery bus boycott from his offices downtown in the former slave trader’s pen. Known as "the most historic short street ...

Alabama State University has removed the name of a Klan leader from a building on its campus and replaced it with that of a woman who was a leader in the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Jo Ann Robinson ...

The Rev. Ira Acree accused two alderpersons who voted against his nomination of holding him to a higher standard than that ...

Al, he and Martin Luther King, Jr. were among the leaders of the 1955-56 Montgomery Bus Boycott organized in response to the arrest of Rosa Parks. In 1961, Abernathy's First Baptist Church was ...

AL, he and Martin Luther King, Jr. were among the leaders of the 1955-56 Montgomery Bus Boycott organized in response to the arrest of Rosa Parks. In 1961, Abernathy's First Baptist Church ...

Rosa Parks was an African-American civil rights activist best known for her pivotal role in the Montgomery bus boycott.On December 1, 1955, she refused to give up her seat to a white passenger on ...

Montgomery's central location in Alabama's Black Belt makes it a processing hub for crops such as cotton, peanuts and soybeans. The city has a large military presence due to Maxwell Air Force Base.