The U.S. Supreme Court ended legal segregation on Montgomery's city buses on Nov. 13, 1956, and a boycott of city buses officially ended just over a month later. An estimated 40,000 Black bus riders were officially free to sit wherever they wanted.

But for Rosa Parks and others who helped spark that change, the abuse didn't end with a court ruling.

"Months after the boycott had ended, a Black woman was shot on the buses," said Bryan Stevenson, founder and executive director of Equal Justice Initiative. "The violence continued. The bombing of people's homes and churches, all of that continued. And of course, that was true even a decade later when there was activism around voting rights."

As a Black couple from Alabama, she and her husband, Raymond, had endured so much while fighting for

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