This is not the Hollywood-movie version of courage, where one day Rosa Parks refused to move on the bus ... Montgomery carpools were giving 10,000 to 15,000 rides a day. Police harassed the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Her arrest led to the Montgomery Bus Boycott and the end of transport segregation in America. It also propelled Martin Luther King into the media spotlight. Look in more detail at the civil rights ...