"I'm a part of the Montgomery bus boycott story," she said. "Nine months before Rosa Parks was arrested, I was arrested for the same thing," she said. She was in handcuffs, at 15 years old ...

Along with the Montgomery Bus Boycott of 1955 and the student lunch counter sit-ins of 1960, the Freedom Rides were one of the earliest demonstrations that Gandhian principles of nonviolence could ...

During the bus boycott, though, was a group of three girls who used their gift of song to carry those efforts. Mary Jamila Dozier-Jones was only 8 years old when she started the Montgomery Gospel ...