My name is My name is

Rosa Parks Claudette Colvin

I was the secretary of the In March 1955, when I was
NAACP at that time. I had only 15 years old, I was
always been an activist. I was arrested for refusing to give
not "too tired to get up" I up my seat to a White
made a choice to not get up. woman. I told them that I
I was tired of the Jim Crow had paid my fare and it was
Laws. Having to take a
my constitutional right.
certain section on the bus
because of my race was
This was 9 months before
humiliating, but having to Rosa Parks did the same. I
stand up so a white person was also one of 4 women
wouldn't have to was to challenge bus
inhumane. segregation laws in court.
My name is My name is
Rosa Parks Claudette Colvin
 My name is
Jo Ann Robinson
I was screamed at by a bus
driver for sitting in the "whites
only" section of the bus. I
shortly after became the
president of the Women's
Political Council and made
desegregating the buses one
of our top priorities. I was the
one who began laying the
plans for the bus boycott. I
also helped create the
Montgomery Improvement
Association.
My name is
Dr. Martin
Luther King Jr.
I was asked to be the
spokesperson for the
Montgomery
Improvement Association
and for the boycott. I
gave speeches to boost
morale of boycotters and
I negotiated with city
officials and the bus
company.
 My name is My name is
Jo Ann Robinson Dr. Martin
Luther King Jr.
 I am a member of the
Women's Political
Council
Our council complained to
city leaders many times for a
decade about the unfair bus
seating practices and abusive
bus driver conduct, but they
always ignored us. So we
realized we would need to
boycott for change. Our
council's organizing efforts
made the 382 day bus
boycott possible.
My name is
Mary Louise
Smith
In March 1955, before Rosa
Parks, I was yanked off the
bus by police officers after
refusing to give up my seat. I
was only 18 years old but I
had learned about
constitutional rights in school
and wanted other black girls
to know they had a right to
be there because they paid
their bus fare too.
 I am a member of the My name is
Women's Political Mary Louise
Council Smith
 My name is I was a
E.D. Nixon Black Taxicab
I was the president of the Driver
local National Association for At the early stages of the
the Advancement of Colored boycott, me and my fellow
People and then I created the
black taxicab drivers helped
Montgomery Improvement
make the bus boycott
Association. This association
was responsible for making possible by providing an
sure the boycott continued, emergency 10 cent fare for
providing alternative any boycott participants.
transportation for boycotters, We may have lost a lot of
and keeping boycotters money doing this, but it was
spirits up. I also helped bail worth it to help bring about
Rosa Parks out of jail. change!
 My name is I was a
E.D. Nixon Black Taxicab
Driver
 My name is
Georgia Gilmore
I am often overlooked. I was a
cook so I helped the bus
boycott by starting The Club
From Nowhere, a club that
made and sold meals to raise
money for the 381 day bus
boycott. This money we raised
from selling food funded the
protests, strategy meetings,
and carpool system that the
bus boycott required. Our
group funded the resistance.
 My name is
Georgia Gilmore