• The Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA) was formed on December 5, 1955 by black ministers and community leaders in Montgomery, Alabama. Under the...
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  • of Reconciliation Georgia Gilmore Men of Montgomery Montgomery Improvement Association National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Women's...
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  • Johns, Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, retrieved 2009-05-17 Montgomery Improvement Association, Stanford University Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and...
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    Georgia Gilmore (category Activists from Montgomery, Alabama)
    fund-raising organization, the Club from Nowhere, which sold food at Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA) mass meetings. Her grass-roots activism helped sustain...
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    the Montgomery Improvement Association to organize the boycott. In June 1956, the US District Court Judge Frank M. Johnson ruled that Montgomery's bus...
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    Ralph Abernathy (category Montgomery bus boycott)
    collaborated with King and E. D. Nixon to create the Montgomery Improvement Association, which led to the Montgomery bus boycott and co-created and was an executive...
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  • Aurelia Browder (category Activists from Montgomery, Alabama)
    participate in the lawsuit proposed by the Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA). Prior to her involvement in the Montgomery bus boycott, Browder was active in...
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  • up her bus seat to a white man, sparking the Montgomery bus boycott. The Montgomery Improvement Association was created by Martin Luther King Jr., then...
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  • trial (she was fined). With its success, they founded the Montgomery Improvement Association, and began a citywide bus boycott, led by a new local minister...
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  • Affairs (Russia) Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minnesota, US Montgomery Improvement Association, Alabama, US Mouvement Islamique Armé, an Algerian Islamic...
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    Freedom Organization Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party Montgomery Improvement Association NAACP Youth Council Nashville Student Movement Nation of Islam...
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    six years old, her parents responded to a request from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and volunteered her to...
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  • The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is a civil rights organization in the United States, formed in 1909 as an interracial...
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    Georgia) Council of Federated Organizations (Mississippi) Montgomery Improvement Association (Montgomery, Alabama) Nashville Student Movement (Nashville, Tennessee)...
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    professor they planned to visit King and Abernathy at the Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA). He responded by suggesting they visit the library or...
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    Rosa Parks (category Activists from Montgomery, Alabama)
    were to continue. Rev. Ralph Abernathy suggested the name "Montgomery Improvement Association" (MIA).: 432  The name was adopted, and the MIA was formed...
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  • for the next phase of the civil rights movement. In December 1955, the Montgomery bus boycott began in Alabama and lasted more than a year, resulting eventually...
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    community.: 1499  He volunteered with the Baltimore branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored Persons (NAACP).: 477  In 1935, Marshall...
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  • com) "Plea for Faith Voiced by Noted Negro Educator," The Montgomery Advertiser (Montgomery, Alabama)08 Dec 1933, Fri, p. 14 (accessible on newspapers...
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  • Johnnie Carr (category Activists from Montgomery, Alabama)
    President of the Montgomery Improvement Association, succeeding Martin Luther King Jr. The MIA continued to work in Montgomery, with the association generating...
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    marchers singing the song as "Come By Here" during the 1965 Selma-to-Montgomery (Alabama) march for voting rights. The title of the song is often used...
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    Freedom Ride where the first had left off. Farmer rejoined the group in Montgomery, Alabama. Doris Castle persuaded him to get on the bus at the last minute...
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    the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in 1963, and the Selma to Montgomery March (1965). As he neared the close, he prophetically referred to the...
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  • Freedom Organization Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party Montgomery Improvement Association NAACP Youth Council Nashville Student Movement Nation of Islam...
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    The Selma to Montgomery marches were three protest marches, held in 1965, along the 54-mile (87 km) highway from Selma, Alabama, to the state capital of...
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    's confidants. After King had been arrested for his involvement in the Montgomery bus boycott in 1955, he began traveling to Northern cities to spread awareness...
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    Marcus Garvey. Earl was a local leader of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) and Louise served as secretary and "branch reporter", sending...
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