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Montgomery Improvement Association
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Two months after [Rosa Parks]' arrest. [CIaudette Colvin]'s arrest-and several other Black women who had been similarly arrested-was revisited by some Black attorneys. That formed the basis of a federal class action discrimination suit especially since prior filings in state court "tell on deaf ears." Using Aurelia Browder (a Montgomery homemaker, one of the women who had been arrested) as the named plaintiff, attorney Fred Gray filed a federal case, Browder vs Gayle (W.A. "Tacky" Gayle. Mayor of Montgomery) in the U. S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama in February 1956. After the suit was filed, the city increased its pressure on the MIA. Dr. King and 90 of his followers were arrested and charged with conspiring to conduct a boycott. During the trial. Gray consulted wi...
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In order to sustain the boycott, the MIA had organized an alternative transportation system, which gave the masses the ability to get to work for over a year, something that was crucial to the success of the boycott. In his San Francisco speech King explained this system and decision. He stated: "One of the first practical problems that the ex-bus riders [had experienced] is that in finding some way to get around the city. The first thing that we decided to do was to use a taxi, and they had agreed to transport the people for just 10 cents, the same as the buses. Then the police commission stopped this by warning the taxis that they must charge a minimum of 45 cents a person. Then we immediately got on the job and organized a volunteer car pool. And almost overnight over 300 cars were o...
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In response to the arrest of [Rosa Parks], Montgomery's Black ministers and civil rights leaders met to organize a boycott of the city's buses by African Americans. The new minister of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, the Rev. [Martin Luther King Jr.], only twentysix years old, was chosen president of the Montgomery Improvement Association, which led the boycott. In an emotional speech to a large, enthusiastic gathering, King said, "We will not retreat one inch in our fight to secure and hold onto our American citizenship. [Charlotta Bass], a pioneering California journalist, was named the Progressive Party candidate vice-president of the United States in 1952, when she was seventyeight years old. Forty-two years earlier, the young Charlotta Spears had arrived in Los Angeles and found...
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Born in Tuskegee, Ala., [Rosa Parks] moved to Montgomery during her childhood and attended high school at what was known then as Alabama State Teacher's College. [Joe Lee] said that the university was honored to have Parks' Montgomery memorial on campus. Her action was not a random action," said childhood friend of Parks and president of the Montgomery Improvement Association Johnny Carr. "When Rosa Parks sat down, the world turned around.
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If I could travel back in time and take a panoramic view of history, like the late Dr. Martin Luther King did, where in history would I began my reflection? Dr. King chose to travel back to Egypt where God's children were making their dark journey from Egypt to the Promised Land. Unquestionably, this was a virtuous and pious choice. After I personally considered all of history's prodigious occurrences, I chose an event that was as impacting and critical as the Exodus. I traveled back to Montgomery, Alabama - to the day that the Montgomery Improvement Association asked Dr. King to become their spokes person in leading history's largest boycott. This boycott birthed the Civil Rights Movement and eradicated segregation. As I reflect on such a remarkable incident, I pay tribute to the late ...
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...Whereas in Montgomery, Alabama, in December 1955 the African American co... Luther King, Jr., and the Montgomery Improvement Association organized the boycott of the buses and...
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WASHINGTON, May 10 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA) has hired DC public affairs firm Weber Merritt Strategies (MWS) to provide public affairs, media relations and communications counsel for the celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the Montgomery Bus Boycott. The celebration commemorates the event which gave birth to the Civil Rights Movement on Dec. 5, 1955 in Montgomery, Ala., when an organized boycott of the city's segregated buses began in response to the arrest of a 42byear-old seamstress, Rosa Parks, who refused to move to the segregated section of the bus. Historical figures from the civil rights movement, including the widow of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Coretta Scott King; the widow of Ralph David Abernathy, Juanita Abernathy; MIA President Joh...
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ARLINGTON - Fresh out of the Army in 1962, Herbert Coulton agreed to work with the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. He never thought that he would be at the Pentagon one day being honored for his work with the late civil rights leader. I was overwhelmed to have been invited to come here," Coulton said Wednesday afternoon at the Pentagon. "It's something you don't ask for, it just comes.
... chosen to lead the bus boycott for the Montgomery (Ala.) Bus Improvement Association. "He was select...
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Nearly 50 years ago, Rosa Parks took a powerful stand against segregation by sitting down on a city bus in Montgomery, Ala. While it has been widely reported that Parks, a seamstress, refused to give up her seat to a white man because she was tired, Parks set the record straight in her 1992 autobiography: "No, the only tired I was, I was tired of giving in." Parks referred to Jim Crow laws in place since the post-Civil War Reconstruction that sanctioned segregated restaurants, buses and other public accommodations. Parks' arrest sparked a 13-month busing boycott by blacks, nearly bankrupting the city service. The Montgomery Improvement Association, a group of more than 7,000 blacks assembled after Parks' arrest, filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of Parks and three other women. A lower c...
