HIST 2112 Study Guide - Final Guide: Montgomery Bus Boycott, Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Ralph Abernathy
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Martin luther king jr. (born 1929; active 1954-1968) The prime symbol of the montgomery movement of 1956. He recruited joann robinson, chairperson of the women"s political council (wpc), to lead church"s social and political action committee. It followed the 1954 unanimous supreme court decision on brown v. board of education which overturned the plessy v. ferguson ruling of the legality of segregation when facilities were separate but equal. In 1956, mlk accepted an invitation to the pastorate of the dexter avenue baptist. The city was known as the cradle of the. Confederacy. it was clear that the city"s black population of close to fifty thousand was on the brink of a new time. The expanding, state-by-state defeat of the segregated white primary system inspired the creation of a number of voter registration organizations and campaigns in montgomery. The black citizens demanding justice included many military veterans including:
