| LC control no. | sh2006000842 |
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| Topical heading | Montgomery Bus Boycott, Montgomery, Ala., 1955-1956 |
| See also | Boycotts--Alabama Civil rights demonstrations--Alabama |
| Found in | Work cat.: Robinson, J.A.G. The Montgomery bus boycott and the women who started it, c1987. King encyclopedia, via WWW, Feb. 1, 2006 (Montgomery Bus Boycott; Montgomery bus boycott was an eleven-month mass protest ... The roots of the bus boycott began years before Rosa Parks's arrest ... On 1 December 1955, Rosa Parks refused a bus driver's demand to give up her seat to a white man, resulting in her arrest. Robinson and the WPC responded by calling for a one-day protest of the city's buses on 5 December ... Following the initial success of the boycott, Nixon and Robinson arranged a meeting with the city's ministers to discuss the possibility of extending the boycott to a long-term campaign ... The MIA voted to continue the boycott ... on 21 December 1956, the boycott officially ended) Daybreak of freedom : the Montgomery bus boycott, 1997. |
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