The Montgomery Bus Boycott

Sparked by Rosa Parks, a 381-day boycott launches Dr. King and mass nonviolent protest.

Resources

~7,500 manuscript items and 2,500 photographs documenting Parks's life and the movement.

Connections to other moments, systems, and investigations — the links rarely drawn together.

inspired (incoming)·Event
The murder of Emmett Till
Till's murder, months before, helped galvanize the boycott and the movement.

Till's murder, months before, helped galvanize the boycott and the movement.