Author and historian Jeanne Theoharis said Montgomery segregationists at the time of the boycotts also spread rumors that the Parks family had a car.

Long before Montgomery made headlines, in 1953, Baton Rouge staged the nation’s first bus boycott—an overlooked chapter in Civil Rights history that still echoes through the city’s streets today. Long ...

70 years ago two students from Florida A&M University, Wilhelmina Jakes and Carrie Patterson, would spark one of Tallahassee's most historic moments and movements. The Tallahassee Bus Boycott. Local ...

TALLAHASSEE — Sixty years later, it seems impossible to believe there was a time when blacks and whites were not allowed to sit together on Tallahassee city buses. It seems impossible to believe ...

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 ...

Attorney Fred D. Gray Sr. was a key legal figure in the Civil Rights movement, arguing landmark cases. Gray successfully argued Browder v. Gayle, which led to the desegregation of Montgomery's bus ...

The New Orleans RTA is offering free streetcar, bus and ferry rides all day Wednesday in honor of three activists who helped shape the Civil Rights Movement and end racial segregation on public ...

From the Boston Tea Party to the Montgomery bus boycott to the boycott of apartheid South Africa, politically motivated consumer boycotts have long been part and parcel of American politics. But are ...

Judge Thomas Gray describes the odd circumstances of his 1956 arrest during the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Interview from Aug. 10, 2005.