Mastodawn

#CivilRights activist #RosaParks was born in 1913 on #ThisDayInHistory in Alabama. While dishonest US history texts claim she triggered accidentally the #MontgomeryBusBoycott because she was tired, she was a militant who had fought racists with bricks and called #MalcolmX a hero.

Liam O'Mara IV, PhD Jan 30

The path toward #CivilRights has never been peaceful or easy. On #ThisDayInHistory in 1956, the home of #MartinLutherKingJr was bombed in revenge for his leadership in the #MontgomeryBusBoycott. His wife and infant daughter were home and inside, but were fortunately unharmed.

AFRICAN CONNECTIONS (ACREF)Dec 27

.@democracynow Video: Slow Poison: #IdiAmin, #YoweriMuseveni, & the Making of the #Ugandan State - interview with #MahmoodMamdani

#Uganda #decolonization #IdentityPolitics
#PoliticalScience #Africa #MontgomeryBusBoycott #anticolonial #refragmentation

https://youtube.com/watch?v=OmhauexNEXw&si=qdVnE9HqYyQ9zIP_

"Slow Poison": Scholar Mahmood Mamdani on New Book About Uganda, Decolonization & More

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MusiqueNow

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Dec 10

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#RosaParks and the #MontgomeryBusBoycott

Rosa Parks & The Montgomery Bus Boycott, 70 Years Later

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John Autry Dec 5

December 5, 1955 - Five days after Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white man, the African-American community of Montgomery, Alabama, launched a boycott of the city's bus system.

The Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA) was formed to coordinate the boycott with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., elected as its president.

Out of Montgomery’s 50,000 black residents, 30,000-40,000 participated. They walked or bicycled or car-pooled, depriving the bus company of a substantial portion of its revenue.
The boycott lasted (54 weeks) until it was agreed the buses would be integrated.

#MontgomeryBusBoycott

Liam O'Mara IV, PhD Dec 5

The #MontgomeryBusBoycott began on #ThisDayInHistory in 1955. It followed the arrest of activist #RosaParks and #Alabama lost a lot of money when black people stopped paying for abuse. It continued until 20 Dec. 1956, ending only with a #SCOTUS ruling outlawing bus #segregation.

John Autry Dec 1

December 1, 1955 - Rosa Parks, a black seamstress active in the local NAACP, was arrested by police in Montgomery, Alabama, after refusing to give up her seat on the bus to a white man. Mrs. Parks faced a fine for breaking the segregation laws which said blacks had to vacate their seats if there were white passengers left standing. The same bus driver had thrown her off his bus twelve years prior for refusing to enter through the rear door.

Mrs. Parks had not been the first to defy the Jim Crow (the system of legalized or de jure segregation) law but her arrest sparked the year-long Montgomery Bus Boycott, organized by a young Baptist minister named Martin Luther King, Jr. The Montgomery bus company couldn’t survive without the revenue from its black passengers who, for the next year, created car pools and other means to avoid using the city busses.

The boycott was successful and Mrs. Parks became known as the "mother of the civil rights movement."

#RosaParks #MontgomeryBusBoycott

Liam O'Mara IV, PhD Dec 1

On #ThisDayInHistory in 1955, #RosaParks was arrested in #Montgomery, #Alabama, for refusing to cede her bus seat to a white person. This was no accident: Parks was a long-time #antiracist activist; her act was to launch the #MontgomeryBusBoycott and break #JimCrow #segregation.

Liam O'Mara IV, PhD Nov 13

In 1956 on #ThisDayInHistory, #SCOTUS ruled in #BrowderVGayle that #segregation on buses was illegal. It began with the first four women arrested for refusing to surrender their seat. This did not start with #RosaParks, though the #MontgomeryBusBoycott that followed her helped.