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Baton Rouge bus boycott
Part of the Civil Rights Movement
Date
June 19 – June 24, 1953
Location
Baton Rouge, Louisiana, McKinley High School, Memorial Stadium
Caused by
Racial segregation on public transportation
Resulted in
Inspires Montgomery bus boycott
Parties
United Defense League (UDL)
Baton Rouge City Council
Bus company
Louisiana Attorney General
Bus driver union
Lead figures
UDL member
T. J. Jemison
State Atty. General
Fred S. LeBlanc
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Civil rights movement in Louisiana
State of Louisiana
Louisiana v. NAACP
City of New Orleans
Sugar Bowl of 1956
New Orleans school desegregation crisis
New Orleans sit-ins
Lombard v. Louisiana
City of Baton Rouge
Baton Rouge bus boycott
Baton Rouge sit-ins
Garner v. Louisiana
Cox v. Louisiana
Other localities
Nashville Student Movement Freedom Ride
Missouri to Louisiana Freedom Ride
Murder of Oneal Moore
Brown v. Louisiana
Murder of Clarence Triggs
The Baton Rouge bus boycott was a boycott of city buses launched on June 19, 1953, by African-American residents of Baton Rouge, Louisiana who were seeking integration of the system. They made up about 80% of the ridership of the city buses in the early 1950s but, under Jim Crow rules, black people were forced to sit in the back of the bus, even when the front of the bus was empty. State laws prohibited black citizens from owning private buses outside the city systems.
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