April 19-30, 2021, Homewood Library will host “Women of the Montgomery Bus Boycott”, an exhibit from the Rosa Parks Museum at Troy University.
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From the Troy University press announcement:
“‘Women of the Montgomery Bus Boycott’ will utilize 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 and Lucille Times. Important grassroots political organizations such as the Women’s Political Council will also be highlighted through the exhibit.”
The traveling exhibit was made possible by a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS).
From History.com, an excerpt from the article “Montgomery Bus Boycott”:
“The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a civil rights protest during which African Americans refused to ride city buses in Montgomery, Alabama, to protest segregated seating. The boycott took place from December 5, 1955, to December 20, 1956, and is regarded as the first large-scale U.S. demonstration against segregation. Four days before the boycott began, Rosa Parks, an African American woman, was arrested and fined for refusing to yield her bus seat to a white man. The U.S. Supreme Court ultimately ordered Montgomery to integrate its bus system, and one of the leaders of the boycott, a young pastor named Martin Luther King, Jr., emerged as a prominent leader of the American civil rights movement.”
(Citation Information: Article Title: Montgomery Bus Boycott. Author: History.com Editors. Website Name: HISTORY.com. URL: https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/montgomery-bus-boycott. Access Date: April 6, 2021. Publisher: A&E Television Networks. Last Updated: January 27, 2021. Original Published Date: February 3, 2010)
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