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  2. Montgomery bus boycott - Wikipedia

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    Before the bus boycott, Jim Crow laws mandated the racial segregation of the Montgomery Bus Line. As a result of this segregation, African Americans were not hired as drivers, were forced to ride in the back of the bus, and were frequently ordered to surrender their seats to white people even though black passengers made up 75% of the bus system's riders. [2]

  3. 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 ...

  4. Boycott - Wikipedia

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    the 1905 Chinese boycott of American products to protest the extension of the Chinese Exclusion Act in 1902. [9] the Indian boycott of British goods organized by Mahatma Gandhi; the successful Jewish boycott organized against Henry Ford in the United States, in the 1920s; the boycott of Japanese products in China after the May Fourth Movement

  5. Civil rights movement - Wikipedia

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    The philosophical basis of the practice of nonviolence in the American civil rights movement was largely inspired by Mahatma Gandhi's "non-cooperation" policies during his involvement in the Indian independence movement, which were intended to gain attention so that the public would either "intervene in advance" or "provide public pressure in ...

  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. Boycott Florida? Warnings from civil rights groups call ... - AOL

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    From 17 July 1990 to 12 May 1993, a boycott supported by the NAACP and other civil rights groups urged visitors to steer clear, inflicting potentially tens of millions of dollars in lost tourism ...

  8. Claudette Colvin - Wikipedia

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    Colvin was a predecessor to the Montgomery bus boycott movement of 1955, which gained national attention. But she rarely told her story after moving to New York City. The discussions in the black community began to focus on black enterprise rather than integration, although national civil rights legislation did not pass until 1964 and 1965.

  9. History of civil rights in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The philosophical basis of the practice of nonviolence in the American civil rights movement was largely inspired by Mahatma Gandhi's "non-cooperation" policies during his involvement in the Indian independence movement, which were intended to gain attention so that the public would either "intervene in advance" or "provide public pressure in ...