Montgomery Bus Boycott

Did you know it was a group of women organizers who called the Montgomery Bus Boycott, which heralded the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement and introduced Martin Luther King Jr. to the national stage?

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Dr. King was not just a man who fought for the rights of African Americans, which he did so vehemently, but he was a man who fought to do the work of Jesus Christ commissioned to him prior to the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

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Miss Rand wrote her novel after taking part in the Montgomery Bus Boycott, and she based the events in Atlas Shrugged on Doctor King's struggle against the Jim Crow racial-collectivists.

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I remember my Dad explaining the Montgomery Bus Boycott to me when I was six years old, while it was going on all around us.

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A new video the state made to show tour operators begins with a sound clip from an Obama speech when he mentions the voting rights marches in Selma and the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

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Four years before the Montgomery Bus Boycott, he founded a mass nonviolent movement in the Mississippi Delta.

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I have to go all the way back to the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

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This church basement is where the Montgomery Bus Boycott plan was hatched.

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Tourists can stand and look out from the pulpit where Dr. King once preached, and they can visit the basement, which has changed over the years, where movement leaders hatched plans for the year-long Montgomery Bus Boycott.

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This was 1954, the year before the Montgomery Bus Boycott which launched a major phase in the centuries long struggle for full Civil Rights for all Americans.

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