Freedom movements don’t
just happen, they are made—and not by charismatic leaders, but by everyday
people possessing great courage.
By Jeanne Theoharis AUGUST 17, 2015, The Nation
His lecture on the
Montgomery bus boycott spanned three class periods. Professor Julian Bond
traced the origins and development of the boycott, in the hours and days after
Rosa Parks’ arrest. Character by character, he detailed the various people who
came together to turn Parks’ bus stand into a movement in Montgomery and how
they sustained that effort for 382 days.
