SPECTRUM NEWS VIDEO: Nell Stokes was 16 years old when she took part in the Montgomery Bus Boycott. That was the civil rights protest in which African Americans refused to ride city buses in Montgomery, Alabama, to protest segregated seating. Four days before the boycott began, Rosa Parks was arrested and fined for refusing to yield her bus seat to a white man. The protest ultimately led the U.S. Supreme Court to order Montgomery to integrate its bus system. Stokes talks about her
Montgomery protester discusses her civil rights experience
PUBLISHED February 18, 2018 @11:00 AM