Gray, the civil rights lawyer in Montgomery who was Rosa Parks' lawyer during the bus boycott.
Who inspired the Montgomery bus boycott after refusing to give up her bus seat to a white man?
We overlook it because the MIA and its bus boycott served as strategic tools in a broader social movement.
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Just three months later the Montgomery bus boycott began, and many African-Americans will tell you that Till's gruesome lynching was the catalyst.
Martin Luther King junior sought him out in 1956, just a few months after rising to fame during the Montgomery bus boycott.
We've just marked the 50th anniversary of the Montgomery bus boycott, the beginning of the non-violent protest movement in the civil rights struggle.
Dr. King and the other leaders realized they would need an alternative to the public bus system if the bus boycott was going to be sustainable.
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The Montgomery bus boycott required the participation of tens of thousands of people who depended on public transit to get to and from work each day.
They would all have remembered the murder of Emmett Till in 1955, the Montgomery bus boycott that same year, and the showdown in Little Rock in 1957.
Sissy Spacek plays a proper Southern matron with an independent streak, and Whoopi Goldberg is the housemaid who inspires her to become a car-pool driver during the Montgomery bus boycott of 1955-56.
Although Rosa Parks is remembered as the NAACP organizer who sparked the 1955 bus boycott and helped give birth to the Civil Rights Movement, she was an anti-rape activist long before the boycott.
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The founders soon looked to a young preacher by the name of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. to lead the fledgling organization and guide a bus boycott the campaign that would later make Dr. King a household name in the fight for civil rights.
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Though Rosa Parks was not the first to confront the injustice of segregation laws, her courageous act of civil disobedience sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott -- 381 days of peaceful protest when ordinary men, women, and children sent the extraordinary message that second-class citizenship was unacceptable.
On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks who died last October at age 92 refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama, bus to whites. (For perspective, this was just over a year after Brown vs. the Board of Education.) 26-year-old Martin Luther King, a local pastor and member of the Montgomery Improvement Association, was drawn into the ensuing bus boycott and, as they say, the rest is history.
Her arrest triggered a 381-day boycott of the bus system organised by the then little-known Rev Luther King Jr, and the protest led to the desegregation of the transport system.
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