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  2. 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 ...

  3. 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]

  4. Women's Political Council - Wikipedia

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    The handbills asked blacks to boycott the buses the following Monday, December 5, in support of Parks. [20] Thelma Glass and her students helped distribute fliers. [21] By Friday night, word of a boycott had spread all over the city. That same night, local ministers and civil rights leaders held a meeting and announced the boycott for Monday.

  5. Mary Louise Smith (activist) - Wikipedia

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    [4] Activist E.D. Nixon, leading some of the bus boycott movement, shared information that Smith's father was an alcoholic, and she was not the right symbol to withstand the publicity. The family and neighbors dispute this characterization. [3] Additionally, she was considered not the "right class" to be the rallying point for the movement. [5]

  6. A Time for Justice - Wikipedia

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    The 38-minute film, narrated by Julian Bond and featuring John Lewis, presents a short history of the Civil Rights Movement using historical footage and spoken accounts of participants. Events recounted are the Montgomery bus boycott ; school integration in Little Rock, Arkansas; demonstrations in Birmingham ; and the 1965 Selma to Montgomery ...

  7. What is the South Korean 4B movement to boycott men ... - AOL

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    4B (4非) is shorthand for four Korean words that all start with bi-or “no”: bBihon, the refusal of heterosexual marriage; bichulsan, the refusal of childbirth; biyeonae, refusal to date; and ...

  8. Why is everyone boycotting Starbucks? A look inside why the ...

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    December 14, 2023 at 4:18 AM You may have noticed on your social media page a trend of more and more people are calling for a boycott to Starbucks, leaving many confused.

  9. What is the 4B feminist movement? Why is it on the rise in ...

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    The 4B movement is a feminist protest movement that originated in South Korea in 2019 as a response to anti-feminist waves after the election of a conservative South Korean President.