In 1927, the Holland Tunnel was opened under the Hudson River, linking New York City and New Jersey. In 1947, development of ...

close MIAThe Montgomery Improvement Association was founded to organise the 1955 bus boycott. The MIA was led by Dr Martin Luther King Jnr. They decided they wanted to continue the boycott of buses.

Paul Stephenson, who has died aged 87, played a pivotal role in the 1963 Bristol Bus Boycott, an event that helped to pave ...

Take a look back at the history of the civil rights pioneer and her role in the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Iconic civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks was born on Feb. 4, 1913, in Tuskegee, Ala., ...

She worked to promote civil rights before the Montgomery bus boycott. She did this by: helping black people to register to vote in elections, which was very difficult under the Jim Crow laws ...

Along with the Montgomery Bus Boycott of 1955 and the student lunch counter sit-ins of 1960, the Freedom Rides were one of the earliest demonstrations that Gandhian principles of nonviolence could ...

Ellis is the daughter of the late Rev. Robert and Jeannie Graetz, who were activists for civil rights and organizers during the Montgomery Bus Boycott. There’s a lot of crossover work between ...

U.S. House of Representatives Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries Thursday urged Montgomery voters to support Democratic Alabama ...

Jr. were among the leaders of the 1955-56 Montgomery Bus Boycott organized in response to the arrest of Rosa Parks. In 1961, Abernathy's First Baptist Church was the site of the May 21 "siege ...

The bus boycott and one-man pub sit-in that he led in the mid-1960s helped pave the way for a law outlawing discrimination in ...