MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Doris Crenshaw was 12 years old on Dec. 5, 1955, when she and her sister eagerly rushed door to door in their neighborhood, distributing flyers prepared by activists planning a ...
MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- Doris Crenshaw was 12 years old on Dec. 5, 1955, when she and her sister eagerly rushed door to door in their neighborhood, distributing flyers prepared by activists planning a ...
On Dec. 1, 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery City Bus, sparking a year-long boycott by blacks of the Montgomery buses, and a key moment in the Civil Rights movement. File - ...
Rosa Parks wasn't the first arrested for defying unjust segregation laws on a Montgomery bus. But when Parks refused a Montgomery bus driver's order to give up her seat on Dec. 1, 1955, she set in ...
Civil rights pioneer Claudette Colvin has died. She was 86. Her 1955 arrest for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated ...
12don MSN
Claudette Colvin, Civil rights pioneer and hidden figure of Montgomery Bus Boycott, dies at 86
Colvin’s act helped lead to the 1956 Supreme Court case that ultimately desegregated the Montgomery buses. Claudette Colvin, ...
Some results have been hidden because they may be inaccessible to you
Show inaccessible results