The protesters of the civil rights movement didn’t just show up. They planned for every eventuality. It’s a lesson that’s starkly relevant today.
as shown when Martin Luther King Jr spoke of Gandhi as the guiding light of their technique of social change. King was one of the leaders of the famous Montgomery bus boycott (1955-1956).
The Montgomery Bus Boycott did start as a one-day boycott of city buses Dec. 5, 1955. But the organizer — the Montgomery ...
John Reynolds returned to Selma for the 60th anniversary of both the SCOPE program and the Selma to Montgomery march.
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On Feb. 28, the activist group People’s Union USA organized a 24-hour “economic blackout.” The group called upon people to ...
Boycotts are back. With people worried about everything from labour practices and human rights to tariffs and equal ...
Despite the meticulous organization of her own archive, photographer Donna Ferrato, known for her work on domestic violence, ...
Leaders of nascent protest movements should give more serious thought to what actually works, writes Wisconsin Public Radio ...
A Montgomery Public Schools bus was involved in a wreck Friday afternoon that resulted in injuries, police said. Montgomery police responded to the two-vehicle wreck around 4 p.m. Friday in the ...
(WSFA) - First responders are on the scene of a crash involving a Montgomery Public Schools bus. A WSFA 12 News crew on the scene found police and medics at the intersection of U.S. Highway 80 ...
The power of the boycott comes from lasting long enough to inflict financial harm on a company. Let me give you an example. The Montgomery bus boycott. Black residents, tired of mistreatment on ...