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 ...
Rosa Parks’ refusal to give up her bus seat in 1955 sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott, but her decades of activism before and after reveal a broader legacy. She was a seasoned NAACP organizer, ...
Judge Thomas Gray describes the odd circumstances of his 1956 arrest during the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Interview from Aug. 10, 2005.