Word: strikingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...show what the niggers are up to." The Advertiser did-and publicized the boycott plan among Negroes in a way that they themselves never could have achieved. The results were astonishing: on Monday Montgomery Negroes walked, rode mules, drove horse-drawn buggies, traveled to work in private cars. The strike was 90% effective...
...They Did It. On the day of the strike, some two dozen Negro ministers decided to push for continuance of the bus boycott. The original demands were mild: 1) Negroes would still be seated from the rear and whites from the front, but on a first-come-first-served basis; 2) Negroes would get courteous treatment; 3) Negro drivers would be employed for routes through predominantly Negro areas. To direct their protest, the Negro ministers decided to form the Montgomery Improvement Association. And for president they elected the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., a relative newcomer whose ability was evident...
...until then was Joseph Nemours Pierre-Louis, the Supreme Court justice who constitutionally succeeded ousted President Paul Magloire (TIME, Dec. 24). Inoffensive President Pierre-Louis sat tight and did not attempt the sweeping government cleanup that Déjoie urged. Impatient, Déjoie last week called a general strike and forced Pierre-Louis...
...been "exhausted." They favored naming a "revolutionary" President to stand in until elections. But Déjoie, the exception, insisted that the temporary presidency should fall to the next eligible justice, who by a stroke of luck was a supporter of Déjoie. He ordered that the strike be continued until his friend took office...
...what he called his rouleau compresseur, a human steam roller of sweating supporters, Fignole pressured the National Assembly as it tried to choose between a "revolutionary" or a "constitutional" successor to the presidency. "A bas Déjoie!" shouted the throng. Déjoie hastily called off the dying strike. Unimpressed, the Assembly chose for provisional President a neutral lawyer named Franck Sylvain. It was a popular choice: as a judge during Magloire's regime, Sylvain earned a reputation for courage by ruling in an important lawsuit against a presidential favorite...