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The Montgomery bus boycott was a political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama.It was a foundational event in the civil rights movement in the United States.
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 ...
"The origins and early development of civil aviation in Montgomery, 1910-1946." Alabama Review 57.1 (2004): 6-25 . Newton, Wesley Phillips. Montgomery in the Good War: Portrait of a Southern City, 1939–1946 (U of Alabama Press, 2000). Rogers, William Warren. Confederate Home Front: Montgomery During the Civil War (University of Alabama Press ...
Code of the city of Montgomery, Alabama, 1952 – via Hathi Trust. Clanton W. Williams. The Early History of Montgomery and Incidentally of the State of Alabama. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1976; Brown, Lynda; et al. (1998). "Chronology". Alabama History: An Annotated Bibliography. Greenwood Press. ISBN 978-0-313-28223-2.
They were stopped on both occasions, once violently, by the police. [1] Approximately 25,000 people joined the March and it became a landmark event in the Civil Rights Movement, leading directly to the passing of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. [1] The march brought public attention to the injustices faced by African Americans in voting. [2]
Pages in category "History of Montgomery, Alabama" ... Timeline of Montgomery, Alabama; 0–9. ... Civil Rights Memorial; G.
The civil rights activists who left Selma on March 7, 1965 were headed to Montgomery to confront Alabama Gov. George Wallace about police brutality and voting rights.
Edgar Daniel Nixon (July 12, 1899 – February 25, 1987), known as E. D. Nixon, was an American civil rights leader and union organizer in Alabama who played a crucial role in organizing the landmark Montgomery bus boycott there in 1955. The boycott highlighted the issues of segregation in the South, was upheld for more than a year by black ...