Sentences with phrase «boycott of the city buses»

the Blacks of Montgomery began their boycott of the city buses.

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On Monday December 5, 1955, Martin Luther King, Jr., newly appointed head of the Montgomery Improvement Association, stood behind his pulpit in that Alabama city and urged its black citizens to join together in a bus boycott to protest the indignity of segregated seating.

After Rosa Parks was arrested for not giving up her seat to a white man on a city bus, the new pastor, King, was drafted to lead the African - American community in a boycott of public transportation.

Last year, my son and I rode the city bus downtown on the MLK holiday, and I told him the story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott — the story that made King famous and won him the Nobel Peace Pribus downtown on the MLK holiday, and I told him the story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott — the story that made King famous and won him the Nobel Peace PriBus Boycott — the story that made King famous and won him the Nobel Peace Prize.

Born in Birmingham, Alabama, at the inception of that city's pivotal bus boycott, Marshall's childhood was permeated by the turbulent struggles of the Civil Rights movement.