Good for them!

…nity that they are tired of giving money to a system that treats them less than citizens and humans. Due to the drivers strike to overturned the ordinance, the Black community in Baton Rouge hit them in their pockets where it counted by keeping their dollars to themselves to show the city they are not taking this system of suppression no longer, with their own boycott. Mrs. White stance provoked the boycott and it became the framework for the famous effort sparked by Rosa Parks, whose choice to sit on the bus like Mrs. White, sparked another bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama in 1955.
Before Mrs. Rosa Parks, There Was Mrs. Martha White, The Louisiana Bus Boycott
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Holly Jahangiri
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Jun 10, 2021
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Good for them! I suspect Mrs. White was less famous because she WASN'T arrested. But thank you for highlighting her activism and the fact that she so inspired others!
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