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| Title: | Montgomery, 1955 : Rosa Parks, MLK, and the boycott that changed the South |
| Date: | 1955-1956 |
| Description: | Web site exhibit of materials relating to the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott. The site includes a copy of the Montgomery city code that required segregation on the buses and that gave power to bus drivers to arrest passengers; an image of the bus Rosa Parks was on when she was arrested and a diagram of where she was sitting; a police report from Parks' arrest, a copy of her fingerprint card, and her mug shot; newspaper articles and Montgomery Improvement Association flyers about the boycott; and images of commemorative materials. The Civil Rights Digital Library received support from a National Leadership Grant for Libraries awarded to the University of Georgia by the Institute of Museum and Library Services for the aggregation and enhancement of partner metadata. |
| Types: | Instructional materials | Articles | Flyers | Newspapers | Legal documents | Reports | Identification photographs | Photographs | Web sites | Timelines (chronologies) |
| Subjects: | King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968 | Parks, Rosa, 1913-2005 | Nixon, Edgar Daniel | Abernathy, Ralph, 1926-1990 | Montgomery Bus Boycott, Montgomery, Ala., 1955-1956 | Civil rights movements--Alabama--Montgomery | Civil rights demonstrations--Alabama--Montgomery | African American civil rights workers--Alabama--Montgomery | Civil rights workers--Alabama--Montgomery | Boycotts--Alabama--Montgomery | Buses--Alabama--Montgomery | Passive resistance--Alabama--Montgomery | Direct action--Alabama--Montgomery | Nonviolence--Alabama--Montgomery | Race discrimination--Alabama--Montgomery | Race relations | Montgomery (Ala.)--Race relations--History--20th century | Segregation--Alabama--Montgomery | Law--Alabama--Montgomery | Montgomery Improvement Association | Montgomery (Ala.) | Montgomery County (Ala.) |
| Institution: | IIT Downtown Campus Library |
| Contributors: | IIT Downtown Campus Library |
| Online Publisher: | [Chicago, Ill.] : IIT Downtown Campus Library |
| Persistent Link to Item: | http://library.kentlaw.edu/Exhibit/Montgomery/busboycott.htm |
