Mississippi Today
What civil rights action looks like 70 years after the Montgomery Bus Boycott
Black residents' boycott of city buses in Montgomery, Alabama, started 70 years ago and lasted more than one year. It was widely considered the beginning of the modern Civil Rights Movement.
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