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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]
The killing of Greg Gunn occurred on the morning of February 25, 2016, in Montgomery, Alabama.Gunn, a 58-year-old African-American man, [1] was shot and killed near his home after fleeing from a stop-and-frisk initiated by Aaron Cody Smith, a white police officer.
Pages in category "Montgomery bus boycott" The following 23 pages are in this category, out of 23 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Three people were killed Tuesday night at a small grocery store in Montgomery, an outburst of violence that comes after a string of robberies targeting Latino-owned businesses in Alabama’s ...
Drive-by shooting at a birthday party hosted by a nightclub Geneva County shootings: Geneva: March 10, 2009: 11 6 17: Shooting spree by man targeting family and others 2010 University of Alabama in Huntsville shooting: Huntsville: February 12, 2010: 3 3 6: 2013 Alabama bunker hostage crisis: Midland City: January 29, 2013: 2 2: 2016 Citronelle ...
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 ...
Mary Louise Ware (née Smith; born 1937) is an African-American civil rights activist.She was arrested in October 1955 at the age of 18 in Montgomery, Alabama for refusing to give up her seat on the segregated bus system.
Georgia Teresa Gilmore (February 5, 1920 – March 7, 1990) was an African-American woman from Montgomery, Alabama, who participated in the Montgomery bus boycott through her fund-raising organization, the Club from Nowhere, which sold food at Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA) mass meetings. [1]