Black civil rights activist Rosa Parks is best known for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white man on Dec. 1, 1955. Her subsequent arrest by law enforcement sparked the Montgomery bus boycotts, ...
The U.S. Supreme Court ended legal segregation on Montgomery's city buses on Nov. 13, 1956, and a boycott of city buses officially ended just over a month later. An estimated 40,000 Black bus riders ...
This is viewer supported news. Please do your part today. Part 2 of our conversation with historian Jeanne Theoharis on the 70th anniversary of the Montgomery bus boycott, which began days after Rosa ...