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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 ...
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.
Hispanic-owned businesses in Montgomery, Alabama, are being “hunted” by criminals, city officials said this week after three people were killed in a grocery store shooting that officials say ...
Bus driver defied by Rosa Parks after he ordered her to give up her seat – eventually leading to the Montgomery bus boycott James Frederick Blake (April 14, 1912 – March 21, 2002) was an American bus driver in Montgomery, Alabama , whom Rosa Parks defied in 1955, prompting the Montgomery bus boycott .
Pages in category "Montgomery bus boycott" The following 23 pages are in this category, out of 23 total. ... This page was last edited on 1 June 2024, ...
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.
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]
In 1957, in the wake of the Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott, Shuttlesworth worked with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and other Black pastors to form the Southern Christian Leadership Conference ...