TWM is built upon the axle and example of Dr. King’s Montgomery Bus Boycott.
In “After Rosa sat: The genius and success of the 13-month Montgomery Bus Boycott,” Chris Kromm makes this observation.
“Laying the groundwork for a boycott in Montgomery were E.D. Nixon, a member of the Black Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters union and officer with Parks in the local NAACP, and Jo Ann Robinson, a professor at Alabama State College and leader of the Women’s Political Council.
In 1954, more than a year before Parks’ act of civil disobedience, Robinson wrote a letter to the mayor of Montgomery warning that ‘there has been talk from twenty-five or more local organizations of planning a city-wide boycott of buses.
DPD officers would tell you that the safest place in Dallas was on our pocket line.
