Harvard College ( presently Harvard University ) was originally founded as "New College", although it was founded in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1636, which makes it the oldest educational institution in America. It was originally founded to train clergy ministers, then deemed of great need in New England.
African-American citizens made up a full three-quarters of regular bus riders, causing the boycott to have a strong economic impact on the public transportation system and on the city of Montgomery as a whole.
