Seventy years ago in Montgomery, Alabama, Rosa Parks refused to surrender her seat to a white passenger on a segregated bus, an act that led to her arrest and sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Guided by a young Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the boycott lasted 381 days and concluded when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled bus segregation unconstitutional.
Parks’ quiet defiance on Dec. 1, 1955, became a pivotal moment in the civil rights movement.
Kerrville has its own historical figure who shaped the local Black community during segregation: Anna W. Doyle, an educator who donated land for the Doyle School and served as its head teacher for nearly two decades.
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