This source provides a comprehensive, and detailed account focusing on the people and personalities behind the Montgomery, Alabama, Bus Boycott in 1955-1956, which became the catalyst for a national civil rights movement. It contains more than 15 original documents, interviews, letters to the editor, newspaper clippings, editorials, sidebars, and commentaries from eyewitnesses to this history help connect the reader to a bygone era. It also provides an in-depth chronology that spans almost 95 years, highlighting important Civil rights events ranging from the 1863 Emancipation Proclamation to 1957 when the Southern Christian Leadership Conference was formed as a Civil Rights organization out of the boycott. It also contains Photos of the weekly
