• 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    major turning point was the Montgomery Bus Boycott of 1955, which followed Rosa Park's bold move of not giving up her bus seat. Several notable African...
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  • 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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  • Transport and bus boycotts in the United States where protests against the racial segregation of transport services before the passage of the 1964 Civil...
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  • 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 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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • Mary Louise Smith (activist) (category Activists from Montgomery, Alabama)
    ordered Alabama to desegregate its buses and the Montgomery bus boycott ended. Mary Louise Smith was born in Montgomery, Alabama into a Catholic family....
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    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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  • Bus boycotts in South Africa were a series of protests that took place in the Union of South Africa and in the present Republic of South Africa against...
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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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