St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1957-01-04
Montgomery, Alabama, Top
News Event


There be opinion as
to the most important be few who
win not that the heroic fight Montgomery Negroes
against the humiliation injustice public transport was
major event
Al Supreme court decision against school
segregation being Montgomery
can citizens fed up with the brutality of bus drivers Negroes
ana ured OF me humiliation OF segregated seating public
poraton system their helped support rebeled
sututed boycott which ended in victory few days ago
whether they realized Montgomery citizens led by
bome churches stned the Negro especially
those Of the Southland who have % Khan and its
attempt to keep them subordinate capcous whims Of
any American white
More than this aroused decent white people country
to the injustice which almost unchaenged
Tor years except by the NAAcP and few other
The Montgomery people gave American business
the public utilities Others leaders have been
studying economics too and that they longer willing to pay
their fares TO be nsuted and gated which
emphasized the ddain with which the majority them
In the North Negroes whites thrilled by the spectacle Of
thousands Of Negroes walking to work organizing
car pools get their by sending
ment IN tho form Of money to the Montgomerians
magnificent effort and at Montgomery the passie
resistance technique employed effectively by first
fun expression on the North American Despite borbng
snpngs threats arrests charges leaders OF the
Montgomery movement the forgive pray for their
oppreorS something quite the American scene
In fact the refusal Montgomery Negroes return violence with
violence was both tribute leaders signal that the
American Negro in his struggle citizenship was pre-
pared to use more than one method to achieve
The Montgomery spreading all over the South It
repeated Tallahassee Florida where students at an
school grew fed up with the mistroament and the
Insults implied by seating reved against the
tees They by citizens led b another
minister NAACP president city government re
aated by arrosng leaders the bovo
re" days ago after the u Supreme ouavng public
transportation segregation the Tallahassee group testing The
meo practice by boarding busse and sitting they pleased
In Birmingham where great economic power
which they have not heretofore used in the interest being
treated decent led by minister Rev r. l. shus,crt
but their in court win TO end the nefos
Jmcrow practices
Rev shueworh all Negroes dare stand up for their
people was eamnEed by whites was bombed Civ
ing rise to his classic statement Garroay Today
gram Dec ~ In which he said for the Tv American
white folks throw bread to the Hungarans bombs at their own
Negro-American citizens"
All Of this started when Negro woman seamsress tired Of
eouhuay being forced to get buses on
which she paid the finally rebeed and was arrested and
placed IN Jail. ~
That lone incident transportation line which operates the
Montgomery buses loss for 1854 re-
utazed the struggle of Negroes for decent
treatment at home II hghghed passive technique
ana me use OF economic to obtain Justice but
powerful nations Negroes whose con-
Sume purchasing (count OF dollars
yearly
1t did anything except the Auherne Ir cas-. %
show southern their outmoei Tu,r s
toms before the the world for their n ar
Of decency and morality in human relations
Yes Montgomery OF tho Confeaeracy as m Ma, 50
proudly called IT, made history Mayor A. W. Gayle
welcomed the North and game between halves saturday
he eNtoed the great city Montgomery writer almost
when he mentioned the democracy freedom trhp that s
IN montgomery knowing fun well that Mayor Cae and
persons like him who at freedom but men like the
Rev KING and Alternately OF Montgomery followers nom
professional men to washerwomen had introduced free
dom to Montgomery and the rest Of the south n 1855