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History & Hope: Author shares story of family's role in Montgomery bus boycotts


History & Hope: Author shares story of family s role in Montgomery bus boycotts
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Updated: 8:05 AM PST Mar 4, 2021
By Brie Jackson
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Updated: 8:05 AM PST Mar 4, 2021
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My father and my uncle were leaders of that protest, and it was a protest that really kick started. The civil rights movement was the first direct mass action protest. My dad was a boycott organizer, my dad, the late Judge Thomas Gray and his younger brother, youngest brother Fred Gray, who is a renowned civil rights lawyer. He represented Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King and a young teenage girl named Claudette Colvin, who was also involved in the movement. Colvin was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated bus nine months before Rosa Parks did the same thing. But it was parks arrest that sparked the Montgomery bus boycott, leading to the integration of the city s buses. Basically, what the bl ....

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