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The role of women, including Rosa Parks,
who refused to give up their bus seats, in desegregating buses in Montgomery.
Photo of the bus that Aurelia Browder, Susie McDonald, Claudette Colvin, Mary Louse Smith refused to give up their seats. They were plaintiffs in "Browder v. Gayle," the case that ended up going to the U.S. Supreme Court that affirmed the ruling of the United States District Court in Alabama that decided in a two-to-one vote that segregation on Alabama's intrastate buses was unconstitutional. This was also the bus which iconically Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on sparking the beginning and end of the Montgomery Bus Boycott
This writer, Uriah J. Fields, was pastor of the Bell Street Baptist Church in Montgomery and secretary of the Montgomery Improvement Association, founded four days after the arrest of Rosa Parks, to give structure to and conduct the Montgomery Bus Boycott that lasted for 382 days. Bell Street Baptist Church which had to be rebuilt and three other churches and two parsonages were bombed by racists in the wee hours of a single day.
To see photo visit: uriahfields.com/uriah.j.fields
Dare we forget.
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