In 2005, the Montgomery Advertiser held a series of exclusive interviews with key figures from the Montgomery Bus Boycott of 1955 and those who witnessed history as it happened. In this newly ...

As a single, White mother Clyde Lewis didn't know the 1955 boycott was on until after her bus didn't arrive. Full interview from Aug. 8, 2005. Gwen Patton on the path to the end of Jim Crow laws in ...

Rosa Parks wasn't the first arrested for defying unjust segregation laws on a Montgomery bus. But when Parks refused a Montgomery bus driver's order to give up her seat on Dec. 1, 1955, she set in ...