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Jo Ann Robinson

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Black woman in Montgomery who formed the Women's Political Council in 1946. in 1949 she was verbally attacked by a bus driver and she decided that something had to change. Shortly after Rosa Parks was arrested Jo Ann and the NAACP organized a one-day bus boycott in Montgomery. It was on December 5, 1955, she sent out flyer to many black people in the community telling them not to ride the bus. The boycott ended up lasting over a year because the bus company would not give in to any of their demands for rights.