Tag: Montgomery bus boycott
Alabama leaders celebrate Martin Luther King Day
Today is a national and state holiday honoring the Civil Rights Movement icon, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Banks, government offices, post...
Judge clears 1955 court record of civil rights pioneer, Claudette Colvin
A judge has approved a request to wipe clean the court record of a Black woman who was arrested for refusing to...
What’s inside Montgomery’s new national peace memorial and slavery legacy museum
The Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) will open two institutions Thursday as part of its work to advance truth and reconciliation around race in America and to...
Legislation seeks to name Dec. 1 as Rosa Parks Day
Alabama might set aside a day honor civil rights icon Rosa Parks.
A proposal in the Alabama Legislature would name Dec. 1 as Rosa Parks...
Inside the Birmingham community where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. found...
Jeff Drew remembers the first day he met the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who stayed with his family during visits to Birmingham in the...
Rescued Rosa Parks house due to return to America
The house where Rosa Parks lived after sparking the Montgomery bus boycott was on a demolition list in Detroit until it was saved by Parks' niece...
RNC commemorates Rosa Parks and the Montgomery, Ala. bus boycott
Dec. 5 marks the 61st anniversary of the Montgomery, Ala. bus boycott, which began in the days following Rosa Parks' arrest after she refused to give up...
Hillary Clinton to speak at Montgomery bus boycott anniversary event
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is traveling to Alabama to mark the 60th anniversary of the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
Clinton will speak Tuesday morning at...
Montgomery officials debate ways to commemorate bus boycott
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - Montgomery officials say they have begun planning how to celebrate the 60th anniversary of a bus boycott often cited as...
