Justice for Rosa Parks, Claudette Colvin, Mary Louise Smith in Montgomery, Alabama 96 Signatures

From: The Tennessee Tribune | Date: September 29, 2005 | Copyright information

Tennessee TRIBUNE, The
09-29-2005
Petition for Pardon

We are circulating a petition to have criminal records permanently removed
on three women that were illegally arrested, ailed, charged, and fined for
refusing to follow the city of Montgomery's segregation codes. Those women
were Claudette Colvin, Mary Louise Smith-Ware, and Rosa Parks. Ms. Colvin
and Mrs. Smith-Ware were involved in the civil rights case, Browder vs.
Gayle that desegregated buses in Montgomery, Al. in 1956, and Mrs. Parks
arrest sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

In 1900, a Montgomery city ordinance (overturned) December 21, ...

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