Annie Bell Giles participated in the Montgomery Bus Boycott and knew Martin Luther King Jr. Interview recorded on Aug. 9, 2005.

Dec. 5 marked the 70th anniversary of the Montgomery bus boycott, which began Dec. 5, 1955, after Rosa Parks’ arrest and grew into a sustained, citywide campaign that helped end legal segregation on ...

Jo Ann Robinson strode into Alabama State College in the dead of night. It was early Friday morning. The previous evening, Dec. 1, 1955, a woman named Rosa Parks had been arrested. Robinson, a ...

On Dec. 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white man who had boarded the bus. Her arrest led to the Montgomery Bus Boycott. The boycott led ...