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 the site of the May 21 "siege ...

"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 ...

Gilmore turned her home into a restaurant, and used her amazing cooking skills to feed many of the movement’s foot soldiers and leaders ... from that era in Montgomery. She's the one who actually ...

Often recognized as part of the 'Holy Trinity' of Black leaders celebrated ... to move to the back of a Montgomery bus, igniting the 13-month Montgomery Bus Boycott that ultimately led to the ...

Parks had been a dedicated volunteer for the Montgomery Improvement ... with Martin Luther King Jr. on the bus boycott, Parks ...

What will our church do, if people in our congregation and community lose some or all of their Medicaid funding?” ...

The original mugshots of Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr., Fred Gray, and many other civil rights leaders are still ... not that long ago when the Montgomery Bus Boycott and sit-ins led by ...

Statewide leaders, such as NAACP field secretary ... A boycott for a boycott About four months before the Montgomery Bus Boycott began, a movement was stirring among college students in Orangeburg ...

In 1955, he became well-known as a leader of the Montgomery bus boycott. He gave people lifts in his car and was sent to prison for two weeks for his role in the protest. King believed that non ...