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  2. National City Lines - Wikipedia

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    Montgomery City Lines was the National City Lines subsidiary that operated the municipal transit system for Montgomery, Alabama. [ 15 ] On 1 December 1955, Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to move to the back of a Montgomery City Lines bus.

  3. Montgomery bus boycott - Wikipedia

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    National City Lines owned the Montgomery Bus Line at the time of the Montgomery bus boycott. [12] Under the leadership of Walter Reuther , the United Auto Workers donated almost $5,000 (equivalent to $57,000 in 2023) to the boycott's organizing committee.

  4. General Motors streetcar conspiracy - Wikipedia

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    The General Motors streetcar conspiracy refers to the convictions of General Motors (GM) and related companies that were involved in the monopolizing of the sale of buses and supplies to National City Lines (NCL) and subsidiaries, as well as to the allegations that the defendants conspired to own or control transit systems, in violation of Section 1 of the Sherman Antitrust Act.

  5. Sorry, that seat's taken. Here's how a public transit system ...

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    The bus Rosa Parks rode in when she refused to give up her seat to a white rider and helped spark the civil rights movement is shown on display at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Mich., March ...

  6. Montgomery Improvement Association - Wikipedia

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    The Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA) was an organization formed on December 5, 1955 by black ministers and community leaders in Montgomery, Alabama.Under the leadership of Ralph Abernathy, Martin Luther King Jr. and Edgar Nixon, the MIA was instrumental in guiding the Montgomery bus boycott by setting up the car pool system that would sustain the boycott, negotiating settlements with ...

  7. Witness to history: Friends, colleagues remember Dr. Ralph ...

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    Dr. Ralph Bryson, who participated in the Montgomery Bus Boycott, was remembered as a mentor, musician and a scholar by his friends and colleagues. Bryson died Feb. 12 at age 99.

  8. The Biggest Retail Boycotts of All Time - AOL

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    The 400-chapter National Organization for ... Montgomery Bus Boycott. ... Claudette Colvin and later Rosa Parks sparked an anti-discrimination crusade by sitting in the whites-only section of city ...

  9. Transport and bus boycotts in the United States - Wikipedia

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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 integration into the system. In the early 1950s, they made up about 80% of the ridership of the city buses and were estimated to account for slightly more than 10,000 passengers based on ...