We don’t want to change our patterns. That’s why the Montgomery Bus Boycott is so notable. Not only were the participants of that boycott able to get people to change their patters and embrace ...

"I'm a part of the Montgomery bus boycott story," she said. "Nine months before Rosa Parks was arrested, I was arrested for the same thing," she said. She was in handcuffs, at 15 years old ...

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 ...

“The Montgomery bus boycott lasted over 381 days and that’s why it was successful. Like they’re not going to care until you bring them to their knees,” Bates said. The economic blackout ...

Along with the Montgomery Bus Boycott of 1955 and the student lunch counter sit-ins of 1960, the Freedom Rides were one of the earliest demonstrations that Gandhian principles of nonviolence could ...