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This Black History Month episode of Count Time Podcast is an excerpt from interview with Johnnie Jones, Sr. as he describes his experiences as the lawyer for the Baton Rouge Bus Boycott. The first successful civil rights bus boycott in the south.

Show Notes

This Black History Month episode of Count Time Podcast is an excerpt from interview with Johnnie Jones, Sr. as he describes his experiences as the lawyer for the Baton Rouge Bus Boycott. The first successful civil rights bus boycott in the south. LISTEN to the Count Time Podcast episode: "Baton Rouge Bus Boycott" see notes, transcript, pictures and videos here.

The Baton Rouge Boycott was the blueprint for Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott.  In 1953, Martha White helped ignite the Baton Rouge bus boycott. After boarding the bus, she sat down in the section designated for white passengers in the only vacant seat, and was told to move by the driver, but refused.  Approximately 14,000 Black residents of Baton Rouge boycotted the city’s segregated public bus system for eight days.

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