December 1, 1955 to December 20, 1956

Montgomery, Alabama

Government, African-Americans, Civil Rights, Buses

On February 23, 1956, more than two thousand African Americans filled the church from basement to balcony and overflowed into the street for a meeting to urge their followers to boycott the city’s buses.  This meeting was the result of resistance efforts that began when Rose Parks refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery city bus to a white man on Thursday, December 1, 1955.   Months later...