24 hours after her arrest, Rosa Parks was bailed out of jail by Edgar Nixon, president of the NAACP and her friend, and long time employer, Clifford Durr. Nixon spent the better part of that night conferring with a professor named Jo Ann Robinson from the Alabama State College. Jo Ann Robinson was a member of the Womens Political Council and quickly generated over 35,000 copies of a flyer announcing a boycott of the buses. This Rosa Parks bus boycott became a key strategic piece to turning the opinion of the public bus companies.
The NAACP, and particularly its president, Edgar Nixon backed both Parks and the MIA in their plans to stage a boycott. Nixon felt that they had finally found a subject worthy of being in the middle of a civil rights
The NAACP, and particularly its president, Edgar Nixon backed both Parks and the MIA in their plans to stage a boycott. Nixon felt that they had finally found a subject worthy of being in the middle of a civil rights