The Montgomery Bus Boycott began in December 1955, when a lady called Rosa Parks was arrested and fined for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white man. This act of defiance set the wheels ...

to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama, city bus, a protest that galvanized a yearlong bus boycott and opened a new chapter in the struggle for American civil rights. The sentence appears in ...

In Montgomery, the bus boycott – credited ... Ourselves,” the groundbreaking book on women’s health and sexuality. Gordon does not spare that movement from criticism. It was, she notes ...