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Baton Rouge Bus Boycott Captures Early Civil Rights Momentum
In June 1953 Baton Rouge blacks shunned city buses for four days, a flash protest that helped seed the modern civil rights movement. MLK Jr studied the tactics ahead of Montgomery, while lawyer Johnnie A. Jones defended the struggle at the Old State Capitol, recalling threats and the fight for equal seating.
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Odessa
Baton Rouge
Southern University
Jessica Gray
Elaine Miller Raby
Gerri John-Louis
Raby
Almenia Freeman
Freeman
John Louis
Martin Luther King Jr
Montgomery
Alabama
Louisiana
Marc Sternberg
Sternberg
Princeton University
Johnnie A. Jones
Shepherd
Old State Capitol
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