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Today in Labor History December 5, 1955: E. D. Nixon and Rosa Parks initiated the Montgomery Bus Boycott. The boycott lasted until December 20, 1956, when the Supreme Court ruled that the Alabama and Montgomery bus segregation laws were unconstitutional.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #rosaparks #racism #jimcrow #alabama #boycott #segregation #SCOTUS #BlackMastodon

Rosa Parks in 1955, with Martin Luther King Jr. in the background. She is wearing wire-rimmed glasses, a striped shirt and vest. By Unknown author - USIA / National Archives and Records Administration Records of the U.S. Information Agency Record Group 306, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4344206

MikeDunnAuthor

@MikeDunnAuthor@kolektiva.social · 6 days ago

#workingclass #LaborHistory #rosaparks #racism #jimcrow #alabama #boycott #segregation #SCOTUS #BlackMastodon

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Lyle Solla-Yates

@Lyle@cville.online · last month

I missed this a few years ago. I regularly lecture about Homer Plessy and his work in 1892 to fight racial segregation in the American South. His work backfired when the Supreme Court immortalized him with their disastrous Plessy v Ferguson decision enshrining racial segregation as constitutional. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-59888947 #segregation #CivilRights #JimCrow #PlessyVFerguson #HomerPlessy #SCOTUS

Homer Plessy: Pardon for 'separate but equal' civil rights figure

Homer Plessy's arrest 130 years ago led to one of the most criticised Supreme Court decisions in US history.

Lyle Solla-Yates

@Lyle@cville.online · last month

Homer Plessy: Pardon for 'separate but equal' civil rights figure

Homer Plessy's arrest 130 years ago led to one of the most criticised Supreme Court decisions in US history.