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.

There was the year-long Montgomery bus boycott, the lawsuit challenging discrimination on public transportation and finally the Supreme Court decision that outlawed segregation on buses.

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

Peaceful but disruptive forms of protest and demonstration such as sit-ins, the Capitol Crawl, and Montgomery bus boycott ...

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 ...

Origin: Saoirse is of Irish origin. Derivation: The name Saoirse is derived from the Irish word saoirse, meaning “freedom” or ...

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 ...

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 ...

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