The Montgomery Bus Boycott did start as a one-day boycott of city buses Dec. 5, 1955. But the organizer — the Montgomery ...

The Montgomery bus boycott is remembered as one of the earliest mass civil rights protests in American history. It's also the event that helped to make both Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr ...

We are in the grip of deepening darkness, wandering in a wilderness without a moral compass. There is need for places where ...

King first demonstrated the efficacy of passive resistance in 1955–56 while helping to lead the prolonged bus boycott in Montgomery ... The legislation to recognize Martin Luther King Day was first ...

Martin Luther King Jr. Day, or MLK ... emerged as a key figure in the civil rights movement in 1955 with the Montgomery bus boycott. Inspired by Mahatma Gandhi's philosophy of nonviolent ...

The 2001 HBO drama "Boycott" tells the story of the 1955-1956 Montgomery bus boycott, with Jeffrey Wright filling the role of Martin Luther King Jr. Directed by Clark Johnson, the made-for-TV ...

which sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott. One of the leaders to emerge from that boycott was the pastor of Montgomery’s Dexter Avenue Baptist Church - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. From the 1955-56 ...

King first demonstrated the efficacy of passive resistance in 1955–56 while helping to lead the prolonged bus boycott in Montgomery ... The legislation to recognize Martin Luther King Day was first ...