Word: boycott
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plight of the Negro there. But, as Poston's series made plain in the Post last week, there was no cause for alarm. Reporter Poston, 49, who was roughed up while covering the Scottsboro case in 1933, explored the city of the 6½-month-old Negro bus boycott for three weeks and found no danger, little tension-and plenty of help and hospitality from his white colleagues on the Montgomery Advertiser...
...month-old Negro boycott of Jim Crow buses in Montgomery, Ala., has taught the South a fact of economic life: in regions where most bus passengers are Negroes, the boycott is a powerful economic weapon. Last week in Montgomery a three-judge panel in Federal Court-all judges born and raised in Alabama-gave the boycott a sharp legal edge: the court ruled 2-1 that the city's Jim Crow bus seating violates the 14th Amendment and is unconstitutional...
Meanwhile, in Tallahassee. Fla., the Negro leaders of a two-week-old bus boycott rejected some surprisingly moderate bus-company concessions, e.g., first come, first-served seating (but no side-by-side mixing of Negroes and whites), hiring of Negro drivers on predominantly Negro runs. Instead, they demanded complete abolition of Jim Crow seating...
...Memphis, the president of the local chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People filed suit in Federal Court to challenge state laws requiring Jim Crow public transportation; he said enigmatically that there would be no bus boycott unless one started up "spontaneously...
...Miss Lucy affair at Tuscaloosa, Mississippi's Till murder case, and the Montgomery bus boycott all illustrate the pent-up emotion in the South which comes to the surface periodically. Similarly, the March Declaration of Constitutional Principles issued by 19 Senators and 77 Representatives, all from the South, illustrates the new determination and the new organization of the whites: "we regard the decision of the Supreme Court in the school cases as clear abuse of judicial power . . . This unwarranted exercise of power by the court, contrary to the Constitution, is creating chaos and confusion in the states primarily affected...