A free celebration of music and narrated civil rights history in honor of the Montgomery Bus Boycott is coming Dec. 3 from Alabama State University.

ASU's National Center for the Study of Civil Rights and African American Culture will hold a commemorative program in honor of the boycott's 70th anniversary. The program is 6 p.m. at First Baptist Church, 347 N. Ripley St., Montgomery.

Major events from the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott — which ended with the desegregation of city buses — will be narrated with Negro spirituals, gospel music, and traditional protest songs.

The program is free of charge and open to the public.

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