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Overlooked No More: Georgia Gilmore, Who Fed and Funded the Montgomery Bus Boycott By Klancy Miller It took all of Georgia Gilmore’s willpower not to explode at the driver of the crowded bus in Montgomery, Ala., one Friday afternoon in October 1955. She had just boarded and dropped her fare into the cash box when he shouted […]
“Being dragged off that bus was worth it just to see Barack Obama become president,” said Claudette Colvin, who was arrested before Rosa Parks was arrested for keeping her bus seat in Montgomery, Alabama. Claudette Colvin broke ground nearly 10 months before Rosa Parks. In March 1955, Colvin, then just 15 years old, was arrested for violating an […]