King used Baton Rouge as the model for the famed Montgomery, Ala., bus boycott, which began in December 1955, lasted for more than a year and gave momentum to the civil rights movement across the ...

The Baton Rouge episode inspired the Montgomery, Ala., bus boycott led by the Rev. Martin ... a seat at the front of the bus that stops at the newspaper offices. The World War II veteran says ...

In the summer of 1953, McKinley High School became ground zero for planning the Baton Rouge bus boycott — the first civil rights protest of its kind, and one that activists in other cities would ...

In 2021, 99-year-old Martha White died. She was instrumental in the 1953 Baton Rouge Bus Boycott, along with Rev. T.J. Jemison, Attorney Johnnie A. Jones, and Willis Reed. Family members say ...

Christopher Tyson never learned about the Baton Rouge ... News. The film highlights the power of consumer activism and protest and the work of Rev. T. J. Jemison, one of the leaders of the boycott.

There's no 300-foot tower. There's no small bench by the road." Denard says Baton Rouge's 1953 Bus Boycott may be a new listing on the civil rights important places, but ranks up there.

Martha White, a Black woman whose actions helped launch the 1953 bus boycotts ... co-owner of the Baton Rouge African American Museum, speaking of White’s death, the newspaper reported.

The Rev. T.J. Jemison: A news obituary in the Nov. 27 LATExtra ... on the 50th anniversary of the Baton Rouge bus boycott. “We were just trying to get people the right to sit down.” ...

Historian Veronica Freeman and former civil rights attorney Johnnie Jones talked about the 1953 Baton Rouge Bus Boycott. This bus boycott predates other similar boycotts during the Civil Rights ...