Central Library Hosting Women of the Montgomery Bus Boycott Exhibit; December 5 is 67th Anniversary of Start of Boycott
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| Central Library is hosting Women of the Montgomery Bus Boycott exhibit. |
The exhibit will be available for viewing on the first floor of the Central Library through December 6 during library hours. On loan from Troy University's Rosa Parks Museum, Women of the Montgomery Bus Boycott" utilizes oral history interviews, digitized archival material and court documents to tell the heroic stories of Jo Ann Robinson, Aurelia Browder, Claudette Colvin, Mary Louise Smith, Lucille Times, Susie McDonald, Virginia Durr, Georgia Gilmore, Coretta Schott King, Juanita Abernathy, Juliette Hampton Morgan and Jean Graetz. Important grassroots political organizations such as he Women's Political Council are also highlighted through the exhibit.
In February as part of its Black History Month programming, the Central Library hosted a "Tired of Giving In: Rosa Parks Montgomery Bus Boycott lecture featuring representatives from the Rosa Parks Museum.
The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a civil rights protest during which African Americans refused to ride city buses in Montgomery, Alabama, to protest segregation. The boycott took place from December 5, 1955, through December 20, 1956, and was the first large demonstration against segregation in the United States. The boycott began four days after Rosa Parks was arrested and fined for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white man.
The U.S. Supreme Court eventually ordered Montgomery to integrate its bus system. A young Montgomery pastor, Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., was propelled into the most prominent leader of the civil rights movement after helping lead the protests.
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