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<id>iah_busboycott</id>
<coll>busboycott</coll>
<repo>iah</repo>
<public>yes</public>
<dc_title>Montgomery, 1955 : Rosa Parks, MLK, and the boycott that changed the South</dc_title>
<dc_subject>Montgomery Bus Boycott, Montgomery, Ala., 1955-1956</dc_subject>
<dc_subject>Civil rights movements--Alabama--Montgomery</dc_subject>
<dc_subject>Civil rights demonstrations--Alabama--Montgomery</dc_subject>
<dc_subject>African American civil rights workers--Alabama--Montgomery</dc_subject>
<dc_subject>Civil rights workers--Alabama--Montgomery</dc_subject>
<dc_subject>Boycotts--Alabama--Montgomery</dc_subject>
<dc_subject>Buses--Alabama--Montgomery</dc_subject>
<dc_subject>Passive resistance--Alabama--Montgomery</dc_subject>
<dc_subject>Direct action--Alabama--Montgomery</dc_subject>
<dc_subject>Nonviolence--Alabama--Montgomery</dc_subject>
<dc_subject>Race discrimination--Alabama--Montgomery</dc_subject>
<dc_subject>Race relations</dc_subject>
<dc_subject>Montgomery (Ala.)--Race relations--History--20th century</dc_subject>
<dc_subject>Segregation--Alabama--Montgomery</dc_subject>
<dc_subject>Law--Alabama--Montgomery</dc_subject>
<dc_subject>Montgomery Improvement Association</dc_subject>
<dc_subject_personal>King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968</dc_subject_personal>
<dc_subject_personal>Parks, Rosa, 1913-2005</dc_subject_personal>
<dc_subject_personal>Nixon, Edgar Daniel</dc_subject_personal>
<dc_subject_personal>Abernathy, Ralph, 1926-1990</dc_subject_personal>
<dc_description>Web site exhibit of materials relating to the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott. The site includes a copy of the Montgomery city code that required segregation on the buses and that gave power to bus drivers to arrest passengers; an image of the bus Rosa Parks was on when she was arrested and a diagram of where she was sitting; a police report from Parks&apos; arrest, a copy of her fingerprint card, and her mug shot; newspaper articles and Montgomery Improvement Association flyers about the boycott; and images of commemorative materials.</dc_description>
<dc_description>The Civil Rights Digital Library received support from a National Leadership Grant for Libraries awarded to the University of Georgia by the Institute of Museum and Library Services for the aggregation and enhancement of partner metadata.</dc_description>
<dc_publisher>[Chicago, Ill.] : IIT Downtown Campus Library</dc_publisher>
<dc_contributor>IIT Downtown Campus Library</dc_contributor>
<dc_type>Instructional materials</dc_type>
<dc_type>Articles</dc_type>
<dc_type>Flyers</dc_type>
<dc_type>Newspapers</dc_type>
<dc_type>Legal documents</dc_type>
<dc_type>Reports</dc_type>
<dc_type>Identification photographs</dc_type>
<dc_type>Photographs</dc_type>
<dc_type>Web sites</dc_type>
<dc_type>Timelines (chronologies)</dc_type>
<dc_identifier>http://library.kentlaw.edu/Exhibit/Montgomery/busboycott.htm</dc_identifier>
<dc_coverage_temporal>1955/1956</dc_coverage_temporal>
<dc_coverage_spatial>Montgomery (Ala.)</dc_coverage_spatial>
<dc_coverage_spatial>Montgomery County (Ala.)</dc_coverage_spatial>
<upd>20090526 113710</upd>
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