Text transcribed from caption: #PBLEM-18874 PRINCIPALS IN ALABAMA BUS BOYCOTT MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- Three ministers are among these four leaders of the three-month boycott here protesting segregation in city buses. Twenty-four clergymen will be among those tried on March 19 for allegedly violating the state’s anti-boycott law. Left to right are: The Rev. L.R. Bennett; the Rev. H.H. Hubbard; the Rev. Ralph D. Abernathy; and E.D. Nixon, president of the local NAACP. The boycott was launched in December after a Negro seamstress was fined $14 for refusing to move to the rear of a bus. Alabama state and local laws require that Negro riders be segregated in public conveyance. Protestant church groups in various parts of the country have expressed sympathy with the boycott. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (MS-RAM-3C-56-NAB-PBLEM)

Smith, Mildred. (photographer)

1956
March 1956

still image

photographs

photograph : black-and-white ; 8 x 10 inches

Religious News Service--Archives.
Abernathy, Ralph, 1926-1990.
Bennett, L. Roy.
African Methodist Episcopal Church--Clergy.
Hubbard, H.H.
Nixon, Edgar Daniel.

Civil rights movements--United States.
Montgomery Bus Boycott, Montgomery, Ala., 1955-1956.
Civil rights demonstrations--Alabama--Montgomery.
Clergy--Alabama--Montgomery.
Civil rights workers--Alabama--Montgomery.
Boycotts--Alabama--Montgomery.
Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity.
African American clergy--Alabama--Montgomery.

United States.
Alabama
Montgomery.
United States
Montgomery (Ala.)
North and Central America--United States--Alabama--Montgomery--Montgomery

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