Historical place archive
Browse historical events and people recorded at Montgomery in United States of America. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.
The boycott lasts for 381 days, the situation becoming so tense that King's house is bombed, King is arrested during this campaign, which ends with a United States Supreme Court decision outlawing racial segregation on all public transport
The Montgomery Bus Boycott, urged and planned by ED Nixon (head of the Montgomery NAACP chapter and a member of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters) and led by Martin Luther King follows Rosa Parks arrest
The US. Supreme Court ruling prompts Montgomery to desegregate buses
Writes "Stride Toward Freedom", about the bus boycott
King and SCLC join voting-rights march from Selma to Montgomery; police beat and tear gas marchers; King addresses rally before state capitol, builds support for voting rights
Later permits the protected Selma to Montgomery march.
The march finally goes ahead fully, it is during this march that Willie Ricks coins the phrase "Black Power"
The march finally goes ahead fully, it is during this march that Willie Ricks coins the phrase "Black Power"
The march finally goes ahead fully, it is during this march that Willie Ricks coins the phrase "Black Power". On the steps of the state capitol building, King delivers a speech that has become known as "How Long, Not Long"
The march finally goes ahead fully, it is during this march that Willie Ricks coins the phrase "Black Power"
Condoleezza Rice Attends a memorial service in Montgomery, Alabama, in Rices home state, for Rosa Parks, an inspiration for the American Civil Rights Movement
Condoleezza Rice Attends a memorial service in Montgomery, Alabama, in Rices home state, for Rosa Parks, an inspiration for the American Civil Rights Movement
Parks act of civil disobedience inspired blacks in Montgomery to boycott the citys buses for more than a year and to successfully challenge the Jim Crow laws that confined them to second-class status in the city. Condoleezza Rice Attends a memorial service in Montgomery, Alabama, in Rices home state, for Rosa Parks, an inspiration for the American Civil Rights Movement
American civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks dies age 92 years old, 50 years earlier, Parks had famously refused to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Alabama, bus and in doing so catalyzed the American civil rights movement
American civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks dies age 92 years old, 50 years earlier, Parks had famously refused to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Alabama, bus and in doing so catalyzed the American civil rights movement
Provenance
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