What type of details about edgar nixon can be gathered from the following bio? Bio: edgar daniel nixon -lrb- july 12 , 1899 -- february 25 , 1987 -rrb- , known as e. d. nixon , was an african-american civil rights leader and union organizer in alabama who played a crucial role in organizing the landmark montgomery bus boycott there in 1955 . the boycott highlighted the issues of segregation in the south , was upheld for more than a year by black residents , and nearly brought the city-owned bus system to bankruptcy . it ended in december 1956 , after the united states supreme court ruled in the related case , '' browder v. gayle '' -lrb- 1956 -rrb- , that the local and state laws were unconstitutional , and ordered the state to end bus segregation . a longtime organizer and activist , nixon was president of the local chapter of the national association for the advancement of colored people -lrb- naacp -rrb- , the montgomery welfare league , and the montgomery voters league . at the time , nixon already led the montgomery branch of the brotherhood of sleeping car porters union , known as the pullman porters union , which he had helped organize . dr. martin luther king , jr. described nixon as '' one of the chief voices of the negro community in the area of civil rights , '' and '' a symbol of the hopes and aspirations of the long oppressed people of the state of alabama . ''
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