The Montgomery bus boycott was a political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery...
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King Jr. and Edgar Nixon, the MIA was instrumental in guiding the Montgomery bus boycott, a successful campaign that focused national attention on racial...
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James F. Blake (redirect from James Blake (bus driver))
2002) was an American bus driver in Montgomery, Alabama, whom Rosa Parks defied in 1955, prompting the Montgomery bus boycott. Born on April 14, 1912...
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Claudette Colvin (category Montgomery bus boycott)
the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), helped spark the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott. Colvin was one of four plaintiffs in the first federal court case...
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E. D. Nixon (category Montgomery bus boycott)
played a crucial role in organizing the landmark Montgomery bus boycott there in 1955. The boycott highlighted the issues of segregation in the South...
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Georgia Gilmore (category Montgomery bus boycott)
1990) was an African-American woman from Montgomery, Alabama, who participated in the Montgomery bus boycott through her fund-raising organization, the...
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The Bristol Bus Boycott of 1963 arose from the refusal of the Bristol Omnibus Company to employ Black or Asian bus crews in the city of Bristol, England...
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Rosa Parks (category Montgomery bus boycott)
the civil rights movement, best known for her pivotal role in the Montgomery bus boycott. The United States Congress has honored her as "the first lady of...
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Daybreak of Freedom by Stewart Burns, tells the story of the 1955–1956 Montgomery bus boycott. It won a Peabody Award in 2001 "for refusing to allow history to...
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The Tallahassee bus boycott was a citywide boycott in Tallahassee, Florida, that sought to end racial segregation in the employment and seating arrangements...
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Carl Rowan (section Montgomery bus boycott)
the South, including the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott in Alabama, resulting from Rosa Parks's refusal to relinquish her bus seat to a white passenger. As...
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Jo Ann Robinson (category Montgomery bus boycott)
mayor of the city that a boycott would soon rise. After Rosa Parks' arrest, they seized the moment to plan the Montgomery bus boycott. On Thursday, December...
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Montgomery was a major center of events and protests in the Civil Rights Movement, including the Montgomery bus boycott and the Selma to Montgomery marches...
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Women's Political Council (category History of Montgomery, Alabama)
was the first group to officially call for a boycott of the bus system during the Montgomery bus boycott, beginning in December 1955. The group led efforts...
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such as the lynching of Emmett Till. These included boycotts such as the Montgomery bus boycott, "sit-ins" in Greensboro and Nashville, a series of protests...
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mid-20th century, Montgomery was a primary site in the Civil Rights Movement, including the Montgomery bus boycott and the Selma to Montgomery marches. Prior...
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Burton Silverman (section Montgomery bus boycott)
Museum and the Montgomery Museum of Fine Art in 2006 an exhibition tilted: "In Glorious Dignity: Drawings of the Montgomery Bus Boycott". As described...
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The Baton Rouge bus boycott was a boycott of city buses launched on June 19, 1953, by African-American residents of Baton Rouge, Louisiana who were seeking...
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Aurelia Browder (category Activists from Montgomery, Alabama)
the same time. The boycott ended with the Browder v. Gayle ruling, a fact often overlooked by history. While the Montgomery bus boycott gained lasting national...
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Stride Toward Freedom (redirect from Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story)
Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story (published 1958) is Martin Luther King Jr.'s historic account of the 1955–1956 Montgomery bus boycott. The book describes...
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Lucille Times (category Activists from Montgomery, Alabama)
Times launched a boycott of city buses before the Montgomery Bus Boycott began". Troy Today. 2017-02-28. Retrieved 2019-02-14. "Montgomery civil rights legend...
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Robert Graetz (category Activists from Montgomery, Alabama)
the white pastor of a black congregation in Montgomery, Alabama, openly supported the Montgomery bus boycott, a landmark event of the civil rights movement...
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the Montgomery bus boycott began in Alabama and lasted more than a year, resulting eventually in a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that segregated buses were...
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Martin Luther King Jr. (category Montgomery bus boycott)
desegregation, labor rights, and other civil rights. He oversaw the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott and later became the first president of the Southern Christian Leadership...
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to Montgomery Advertiser, May 11, 1932. Summe, S. (1995). "Alive to the cause of justice": Juliette Hampton Morgan and the Montgomery bus boycott. In...
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Robinson) influencing the American civil rights movement during the Montgomery bus boycott. The episode's plot concerns racial segregation in the United States...
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around Montgomery's racial history, especially given the city's pivotal role in the trans-Atlantic slave trade and the Montgomery bus boycott during the...
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National City Lines (redirect from National City Bus Lines)
Montgomery City Lines bus. This led to the Montgomery bus boycott. Montgomery City Lines was placed in the middle of a dispute between Montgomery's black...
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Crewe, Sabrina; Walsh, Frank (2002). "Chapter 3: The Boycott". The Montgomery Bus Boycott. Gareth Stevens. p. 15. ISBN 978-0836833942. Retrieved July...
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The Long Walk Home (category Works about bus transport)
Richard Pearce. Set in Alabama, it is based on a screenplay about the Montgomery bus boycott (1955–1956) by John Cork and a short film by the same name, produced...
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