A need for alternative transportation After recognizing the resounding success of the boycott's first day, Black leaders met to discuss how they could continue the boycott until the city met their ...

A single event didn’t define the American civil rights movement; it was a sustained, courageous fight for equality that ...

Wikimedia Commons/Lizarra1 Claudette Colvin Before Rosa Parks became the face of bus boycotts, Claudette Colvin was just a ...

Learn about civil rights activist Rosa Parks's early life, her pivotal role in the Montgomery Bus Boycott, and her lasting ...

The Tallahassee boycott started five months after the bus boycott in Montgomery, Ala. (1955-56), which was a watershed event of the civil rights movement and catapulted its leader, Martin Luther ...

Parks, an NAACP member, wasn’t the first to refuse to give up a seat, but her action led to the Montgomery bus boycott. In 1956, the Supreme Court ruled to ban segregation on public buses.

On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks’ refusal to surrender her seat on a segregated bus in Montgomery, AL, sparked the Civil Rights Movement. While Parks became an icon, the lesser-known heroes of ...

The boycott was a response to the growing Anglo pro-segregation pressures across the west coast of Canada in the 1920s, seeking a more complete separation of the Chinese and white races in public ...

This issue recognizes the courage and achievements of the men and women who fought for equal rights during the years of the Civil Rights movement. The issue presents an artistic representation of ...

The 1959 boycott — in which Black residents refused to attend cinemas, restaurants and hotels in protest at racial segregation in those establishments — was a watershed moment in the breakdown ...