... was now fully awake." When the boycott began, no one expected it to last for very long. There had been boycotts of buses by blacks before, most recently in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in 1953. A one-day boycott, followed three months later by a weeklong boycott, resulted in buses that were more desegregated yet still had some separate seating. On Thursday, December 8, the ... Improvement Association (MIA) officials met with lawyers from the bus company, as well as the city commissioners, to present a moderate desegregation plan similar to the one already implemented in Baton Rouge and other...

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... , December 8, the fourth day of the boycott MIA officials and officials and lawyers for the bus company, along with city commissioners to present their reasonable desegregation plan similar to Baton Rouge, Louisiana and Mobile, Alabama. The bus company refused their proposal. Cab drivers that supported the protest would charge only 10 cent to ride which was the same as the bus ... ...

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