They Walked To Freedom 1955-1956
Subtitle: The Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott
Edition: Ill edition
Publisher: Sports Publishing
Published: September 1, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 136
ISBN-13: 9781596700109
Subjects: Sociology; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - Histor; Biography & Autobiography; Biography/Autobiography; African American civil rights workers; African Americans; Alabama; Boycotts; Chronological Period/1950's; Civil rights; Civil rights demonstrations; Civil rights movements; Cultural Region/South; Cultural Region/Southeast U.S.; Ethnic Orientation/African-American; Geographic Orientation/Alabama; History; Locality/Montgomery, Alabama; Montgomery; Montgomery (Ala.); Discrimination & Racism; People of Color; Political Freedom & Security - Civil Rights
First sentence: When Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat so that a white man could sit, on the afternoon of December 1, 1955, it set into motion one of the pivotal civil rights movements in the history of the United States-the Montgomery Bus Boycott.