The Montgomery bus boycott looms as a formative turning point of
the twentieth century: harbinger of the African American freedom
movement, which in turn inspired movements for freedom around
the globe; springboard for the leadership of Martin Luther King
Jr. in civil rights, human rights and peacemaking; launching pad
for the worldwide era of upheaval known as the “sixties”. The
bus boycott stands for all times as one of humankind’s supreme
democrtatic moments, a monumental struggle to actualize the
American dream of freedom, equality and constitutionalism. The
nonviolent uprising of 1955 and 1956 represented a new founding
of American democracy that pushed the nation a quantum leap
closer to keeping faith with parchment principles. ---from The
Daybreak of Freedom If any single event touched off the activist
phase of the civil rights movement, it was the Montgomery bus
boycott of 1955-56. Triggered by the refusal of a black
seamstress, Mrs. Rosa Parks, to take her place at the back of a
city bus when the dri