The Montgomery Bus Boycott

This essential book offers multiple perspectives on the Montgomery Bus Boycott. The volume opens with background information, including primary source material, covering the periods leading up to, during and after the boycott. Then, it offers an in-depth, multinational perspective on the boycott’s controversies, current implications, and long-lasting effects. The volume concludes with first-person narratives from people who lived through the event, including Rosa Parks recalling the day she became defiant, and a twelve-year-old girl who recalls the event.