MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Doris Crenshaw was 12 years old on Dec. 5, 1955, when she and her sister eagerly rushed door to door in their neighborhood, distributing flyers prepared by activists planning a ...
We have come too far to turn around now,’ the monument on Alabama’s Montgomery Square reads ...
Rosa Parks wasn't the first arrested for defying unjust segregation laws on a Montgomery bus. But when Parks refused a Montgomery bus driver's order to give up her seat on Dec. 1, 1955, she set in ...
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 ...
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WSFA) - For 70 years, WSFA 12 News has been on the front lines of history. The Montgomery Bus Boycott, a movement to end racial segregation on public transportation in Alabama’s ...
Seventy years ago, a great mass movement was set in motion by a solitary sedentary act. It was unplanned yet defiant in purpose. Over the next decade and beyond, hundreds of thousands of people ...
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WSFA) - Seventy years ago today, civil rights leaders gathered at Holt Street Baptist Church for a mass meeting that sparked the Montgomery bus boycott. Tonight, Montgomery city ...
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