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Baton Rouge bus boycott
Part of the Civil Rights Movement
DateJune 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

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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