(A version of this story first appeared on Dec. 12, 2014.) Three years after Martin Luther King Jr. became internationally famous as the spokesman for the Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott, he came to ...
Annie Bell Giles participated in the Montgomery Bus Boycott and knew Martin Luther King Jr. Interview recorded on Aug. 9, 2005.
Jo Ann Robinson strode into Alabama State College in the dead of night. It was early Friday morning. The previous evening, Dec. 1, 1955, a woman named Rosa Parks had been arrested. Robinson, a ...