What boycotting looks like 70 years after the Montgomery Bus Boycott

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Dorris Crenshaw poses for photos for the 70th anniversary of Rosa Park's Bus Boycott, Monday, Nov. 24, 2025, in Montgomery, Ala. (AP Photo/Butch Dill)

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Doris Crenshaw was 12 years old on Dec. 5, 1955, when she and her sister eagerly rushed door to door in their neighborhood, distributing flyers prepared by activists planning a boycott of city buses in Montgomery, Alabama.

“Don’t ride the bus to work, to town, to school or any place on Monday,” the flyers read, urging people to attend a mass meeting that evening.

There was a sense of urgency. Days earlier, Rosa Parks, the secretary of the local NAACP chapter, had been the latest Black person arrested for refusing to give up a bus seat to a white passenge