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  2. Montgomery bus boycott - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. 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 ...

  4. Transport and bus boycotts in the United States - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. Montgomery to host celebrations marking the 67th ... - AOL

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    Montgomery, Alabama, is marking the 67th anniversary of the Montgomery Bus Boycott with a series of celebrations and events. Montgomery to host celebrations marking the 67th anniversary of Bus Boycott

  6. 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.

  7. Georgia Gilmore - Wikipedia

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    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]

  8. Stride Toward Freedom - Wikipedia

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    First edition. Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story (published 1958) is Martin Luther King Jr.'s historic account of the 1955–1956 Montgomery bus boycott. [1] The book describes the conditions of African Americans living in Alabama during the era, and chronicles the events and participants' planning and thoughts about the boycott and its aftermath.

  9. Theodora Lacey - Wikipedia

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    The campaign called for 381 days of protest, reflecting the length of the Montgomery bus boycott sixty years earlier. [8] She has four children, and, as of 2012, ten grandchildren and ten great-grandchildren. [13] Her husband, Dr. Archie Lacey, died in 1986. [9]