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About 40,000 people in montgomery refused to take the bus that day. this protest lasted for over a year. a young charismatic pastor named martin luther king, jr. emerged as its leader, to encourage sustained participation, the boycott's organizers had local black churches work on keeping up morale and organizers also arranged a free carpool service. black cab drivers were compelled to charge black passengers just 10 cents for a ride, the local bus fare. eventually it led to the supreme court's 1956 bus decision that bus segregation was illegal. in a broader sense, the passage of the voting rig...

The one thing i think we can all agree on, kate, he says you should watch the special before you critique it before you react and that i agree with dave chapel on. it's at least worth consuming and seeing what the fuss is all about and maybe, maybe that's exactly what he wants. >> that's a good point, brian. good point as always. thanks so much, brian. really, really appreciate it. >> thanks. so before we go, i want to tell you about a relatively unknown chapter in american history. a woman who inspired rosa parks' historic stand against segregated bussing is now trying to clear her own name...

>> o'donnell: that makes me tear up. >> she never thought, when she was writing those words, that other people would see them. and now, we have that. >> o'donnell: and the bus boycott that rosa parks inspired would last for more than a year, ending when supreme court ruled that montgomery's bus segregation was unconstitutional. proof, again, that one woman can make a difference. we'll be right back. we'll be right back. ♪ limu emu & doug and now for their service to the community, we present limu emu & doug with this key to the city. [ applause ] it's an honor to tell you that mutual customi...

That living under jim crow was a daily assault on the self. when she realized that she could be a part of changing it she could not sit on the sidelines. that same spirit motivated another teenager a decade before selma in 1955 nine months before rosa parks refused to give up her seat on a segregated bus, 15-year-old claudette colvin refused to move for a white person on a montgomery city bus. she was hauled off the bus and arrested. colvin has been studying -- had been studying harriet tubman in school that month and she chose to take a stand by refusing to give up her seat. she became part o...

Louisiana. the first protest against bus segregation was there in 1953, before alabama, before mississippi. 1953, dr. martin luther king was there. he was living in louisiana. how could he not know? do you think black people enjoyed using separate parts of the bus or separate entrances? i think it's selective memory. >> but that said, we are really good at performing -- i mean, and dancing. >> yeah, i was going to say, there is a survival performance aspect of race that is about, in fact, making people believe that you are happy, when you are not. there's a whole poem about it. beware the grin...