ENGLISH 269 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Montgomery Improvement Association, Ralph Abernathy
15 Mar 2017
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The ten back seats were supposed to be reserved for blacks at all times. The middle section of the bus consisted of sixteen unreserved seats for whites and blacks on a segregated basis. [14] whites filled the middle seats from the front to back, and blacks filled seats from the back to front until the bus was full. If other black people boarded the bus, they were required to stand. A day later, on christmas eve, white men attacked a black teenager as she exited a bus. Four days after that, two buses were fired upon by snipers. In one sniper incident, a pregnant woman was shot in both legs. On january 10, 1957, bombs destroyed five black churches and the home of reverend robert s. graetz, one of the few white montgomerians who had publicly sided with the mia.
