There were dozens of other events in Montgomery this past week commemorating the bus boycotts, several of them focused on how the city's young people viewed the history and future of civil rights. NPR ...
In the segregated South, African Americans were denied equality in the workplace, a chance for a decent education and the right to visit restaurants and use restrooms that white people also used. In ...
Many of the names are familiar. Johnnie Carr, Claudette Colvin, E.D. Nixon. They’re sprinkled through Alabama history, legal history, Black history and American history for their roles in the ...
The Montgomery Bus Boycott through the eyes of leader Thomas Gray Judge Thomas Gray recounts the formation of the MIA and the Montgomery Bus Boycott in this interview from Aug. 10, 2005.