Stanford University The Martin Luther King, Jr., Research and Education Institute
Montgomery City Lines resumes full bus service
December 21, 1956

Montgomery City Lines resumes full service on all routes. King, Abernathy, Nixon, and Glenn Smiley are among the first passengers to seat themselves in the section formerly reserved for whites. The first act of violence involves a black woman who is slapped by a white youth as she leaves a bus.

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