Montgomery  Bus  Boycott

Get on the Bus: Freedom Riders of 1961 
"Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice. "  written by Raymond Arsenault tells the story of white and black students that journeyed on buses through the Southern United States in 1961 to test a law preventing segregation of blacks and whites on public buses and in other public places.

Montgomery Bus Boycott
The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a monumental protest against segregation in Montgomery, Alabama in 1955. Martin Luther King Jr. was President of the Montgomery Improvement Association, an organized group that rallied for change in segregation laws.  After the arrest of Rosa Parks, a boycott by the black community refused to use bus transportation in the city.

Montgomery Bus Boycott   (Archived from africanaonline.com)
On public buses, blacks were to sit behind a barrier that divided them from the whites. This barrier was moved to make room for more white passengers as needed. The Montgomery Bus Boycott started with Rosa Parks refusal to give up her seat on a bus.

Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks, known as "the mother of the civil rights movement," refused to give up her seat for a white man on a Montgomery, Alabama bus on December 1, 1955.  Covers:  events of that day, the fight against discrimination.  and  a brief biography about Rosa Parks.