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  2. Thelma Glass - Wikipedia

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    In 1955, after Rosa Parks' arrest, Glass and the other members of the Women's Political Council, called for a protest against the Montgomery bus system, thus beginning the Montgomery bus boycott, a key action in the Civil Rights Movement. [3] Glass was appointed secretary of the organization in 1955. [3]

  3. E. D. Nixon - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. 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]

  5. 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 ...

  6. List of people from Montgomery, Alabama - Wikipedia

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    Montgomery Improvement Association president, Montgomery bus boycott co-organizer [27] Claudette Colvin: Pioneer of the civil rights movement [28] Morris Dees: Southern Poverty Law Center founder [29] Mahala Ashley Dickerson: First black female attorney in Alabama [30] Fred Gray: Attorney, founding member of the Montgomery Improvement ...

  7. Bayard Rustin - Wikipedia

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    Rustin worked alongside Ella Baker, a co-director of the Crusade for Citizenship, in 1954; and before the Montgomery bus boycott, he helped organize a group called "In Friendship" to provide material and legal assistance to people threatened with eviction from their tenant farms and homes. [2]

  8. Theodora Lacey - Wikipedia

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    It was during the boycott that she met her future husband, Archie Lacey. [10] Archie was a science professor at Alabama State College and met Theodora through his involvement in the bus boycott. [6] The couple's courtship was brief, and they married on April 29, 1956, amid the boycott. [11] Dr.

  9. Robert Graetz - Wikipedia

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    Robert Sylvester Graetz Jr. [1] (May 16, 1928 – September 20, 2020) was a Lutheran clergyman who, as the white pastor of a black congregation in Montgomery, Alabama, openly supported the Montgomery bus boycott, a landmark event of the civil rights movement.