![]() ![]() ![]() Hundreds of drivers took thousands of black people around town during the boycott.was a preacher at that time and he became the leader of the new Montgomery Improvement Association, the group running the boycott. Finally Rosa Parks was arrested, and she appealed.Two more women, Claudette Colvin and Mary Louise Smith, both went to court for sitting in the wrong seat, but the cases did not go to the Supreme Court.Later in the book, black leaders in Montgomery talk about boycotting the buses, and making a Supreme Court case against segregation, but they have to wait for the right time.Many black people has similar problems on Montgomery buses during this time period. ![]() In 1949, she set in the wrong part of the bus and the bus driver stopped the bus to yell at her and make her leave the bus. The first chapter in the book talks about Jo Ann Robinson, a professor at Alabama State, an all black college.The book starts in Montgomery, Alabama, in the time of the Jim Crow laws and segregation.Freedom WalkersRussell Freedman Second Book Share Presentation Yeong L. ![]()
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