Montgomery Bus Boycott: Pivotal civil rights protest, 13-month struggle, nonviolent action transformed America.
Rosa Parks’ brave refusal to give up her seat on Dec. 1, 1955, sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott and changed history.
Anthony Mackie is directing a film about civil rights trailblazer Claudette Colvin.
Claudette Colvin, 82, had been on probation since 1955 after she was arrested for refusing to sit on the back of a segregated bus in Alabama. An Alabama judge has finally expunged her arrest record.
Fifty-eight years ago today, Rosa Parks, then 43-years-old, became a lightening rod for the Civil Rights Movement when she was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a city bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Apparently, that singular act ended racism. Yes, the Civil Rights Movement that followed Parks’ courageous act — which itself followed […]