“I mean, there were 40,000 black people who lived in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1955. And for the most part, none of them rode the buses for 382 days. A lot of planning went on behind the scenes that people don’t know about.”
“After the boycott, Mom took us on the bus and sat us in seats in the front of the bus,” Houston recalled, “so we would know what it felt like to be Negroes who did not have to sit in the back.”
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| Rosa Parks Statue on Dexter Avenue |
Karen Gray Houston has written an autobiography that starts with her upbringing in Montgomery during the boycott.
Her story in on the WTOP Radio website HERE.
(And yes, her Uncle is Fred Gray, the lawyer who represented Rosa Parks and others.)
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