Georgia Gilmore was cooking in her Montgomery, Alabama, home in December 1956 with gospel music playing in the background when a radio announcement declared the Montgomery Bus Boycott was over.
Tallahassee's bus boycott was started by FAMU students inflamed by the treatment of Wilhelmina Jakes and Carrie Patterson.
The Rev. Ira Acree accused two alderpersons who voted against his nomination of holding him to a higher standard than that ...
There was the year-long Montgomery bus boycott, the lawsuit challenging discrimination on public transportation and finally the Supreme Court decision that outlawed segregation on buses.
People from around the area pitched in to help a Montgomery woman who was paralyzed after being shot.
close MIAThe Montgomery Improvement Association was founded to organise the 1955 bus boycott. The MIA was led by Dr Martin Luther King Jnr. They decided they wanted to continue the boycott of buses.
The 70th anniversary of Brown vs. Board of Education should remind us that the goal was quality education for all children.
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 ...
Martin Dobrow, professor of communications at Springfield College, shared this message with the Class of 2024.
including the Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Selma to Montgomery marches. a - Value of 100 means that a family with the median income has exactly enough income to qualify for a typical mortgage on ...