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The Montgomery bus boycott: A history and reference guide (ABC-CLIO, 2009). Retzlaff, Rebecca. "Desegregation of city parks and the civil rights movement: the case of Oak Park in Montgomery, Alabama." Journal of Urban History 47.4 (2021): 715-752.
June 5 – The Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights (ACMHR) is founded at a mass meeting in Birmingham, Alabama. September 2–11 – Tear gas and National Guard used to quell segregationists rioting in Clinton, Tennessee ; 12 black students enter high school under Guard protection.
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 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.
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.
The Selma to Montgomery National Historic Trail is the shortest of the National Historic Trails at 54 miles. [9] [10] The National Historic Trail starts at the Mount Zion AME Zion Church in Marion. [2] Route signs lead people from Marion to Selma, where there is an interpretative center for the trail. [11]
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 ...