Category: History Publisher: Kindle
ISBN-10: 1980568413
Pages: 519
Copyright: April 18, 2018
ISBN-13: 9781980568414
As the title indicates, significant events of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, in a nutshell and day-by-day chronological order, are presented in this book.
Excerpts about two days in the life of the Montgomery.
January 21, 1955 On this Saturday night black correspondent in Minneapolis Carl T. Rowan saw an item moving on the AP wire in Mineapolis and called King: The Sunday Montgomery Advertiser would break the news that the Negroes had agreed to end the boycott. All Negroes would return to the buses Monday morning, said the story, which spelled out settlement terms, including more courtesy from the bus drivers. No Negro leader was identified by name. After a meeting the IMA anounces that the boycott is still on, stating what you may have heard is fake news.
January 23 At a meeting of the MIA executive board King offers his resignation. He expressed his view that someone else among us could lead the organization better than he. He speaks of shared term leadership.The members of the board were concerned that if King resigned, it would show that there was a split in the leadership which would give white people the impression that King no longer had the confidence of black people. A.W. Wilson said "Brother King I would like to see the boyocott continue but if you resign as president we should end the boycott immediately." S. S.Seay said "You are young and well-trained in the spirit. I will drink my portion of this cup, but you can drink it deeper." After most board members pleaded with King to remain the president of the MIA a quietness fell upon us. A motion was made and members unanimously approved and affirmed our full confidence in Dr. King and his leadrship as president of the MIA. King expressed his thanks for our confidence in him and promised to continue to serve as the MIA president.
Excerpt
December 20
The U.S. Supreme Court bus desegregation mandate arrived at Judge Johnson's office. U.S. marshals deliver writs injunction to Montgomery city officials. Judge Jones dissolves his injunction against Montgomery bus desegregation and rebuk the Supreme Court.
December 21
Montgomery City Lines resumes full service on all routes. At 5:45 A.M., Abernathy, Nixon, Mrs Parks and Smiley gathered at the King home on South jackson Street. Ten minutes later, the first bus of the day pulled up at a nearby corner, Martin Luther King, Jr., was the first passenger to the door. He paid his fare and selected a seat toward the front of the bus. Glenn Smiley, the white Texan, sit down next to him. As news photographers snapped pictures,the bus pulled away from the curb. Black Montgomery, after 381 days of mass effort had achieved her goal... .
December 23
A shotgun blast is fired into the King home King informs his congregants of the incident at morning services and later speaks at the MIA meeting at Hutchinson Street Baptist church.
January 10
Thursday morning at 2:30 A.M., about three weeks after buses were integrated bombs exploded in six different
locations in the black community of Montgomery that did considerable damage to four churches and two parsonages... .
(This author, Uriah J. Fields was pastor of one of those bombed churches. Taylor Branch writing about this church in his book "Parting the Waters," states "Bell Street Baptist Church suffered the most destruction on the night of the bombs."
This church had to be rebuilt.)
This is the story of the author’s great great grandparents, Edward Lewis and Sarah Crosby, who were convicts transported to Van Diemen’s Land in the 1840s. It is told from the perspective of a detective agency searching for what happened to Edward, w
