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Mary Louise Smith (activist)

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Activist E.D. Nixon, leading some of the bus boycott movement, shared information that Smith's father was an alcoholic, and she was not the right symbol to withstand the publicity. The family and neighbors dispute this characterization. Additionally, she was considered not the "right class" to be the
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At the age of 18, on October 21, 1955, Smith was returning home on the Montgomery city bus, and was ordered to relinquish her seat to a white passenger who had boarded later. She refused to do so and was arrested. She was charged with failure to obey segregation orders, some 40 days before the arrest
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represented their suit, which called out the YMCA for not allowing her and her sister's children into their summer camp program. In 1972, the U.S. District court ruled in their favor and ended segregation at the YMCA as well as voided remaining segregation ordinances in the city.
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on November 13 in a landmark decision, and in December it declined to reconsider. On December 20, 1956, the Supreme Court ordered Alabama to desegregate its buses and the Montgomery bus boycott ended.
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When Rosa Parks died in October 2005, Smith Ware, then 68, attended the memorial service in Montgomery. "I had to pay my tribute to her, he was our role model."
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family. She and all her siblings attended and graduated from St. Jude Educational Institute. She was baptized at St. Jude's Church, where she was a parishioner.
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Smith is active with her 12 grandchildren and 3 great-grandchildren. She still lives in Montgomery, Alabama, and her older sister lives across the street.
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was unveiled in Montgomery, Alabama, and four granite markers were also unveiled near the statue on the same day to honor four plaintiffs in
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In 1969, Smith and her sister allowed their sons to become plaintiffs in a racial discrimination lawsuit against the Montgomery YMCA. Lawyer
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recruited Smith and her father to become plaintiffs in a federal civil rights class-action lawsuit to end segregated seating on city buses.
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for refusing to give up her seat on the segregated bus system. She is one of several women who were arrested for this offense prior to
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Smith followed the civil rights movement, but were not actively part of the political organization. She did attend the 1963
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rallying point for the movement. Smith's father represented her in court, without aid from outside political organizations.
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Little information is available about her personal life. She married Mr. Ware and they had children together.
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Thornton, Jeannye (December 11, 1995). ""I'm not going to ride the bus."". U.S. News & World Report.
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On February 1, 1956, Smith was one of five women named as plaintiffs in the federal civil suit,
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In 2023, Smith received a historical marker in Montgomery for her own actions.
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ruled that the laws were unconstitutional. The ruling was upheld by the
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On February 1, 1956, Gray and other attorneys filed a civil suit,
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Appealed by the city and state, the case made its way to the
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Aurelia S. Browder et al. v. W. A. Gayle et al., No. 1147
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on similar charges. She was arrested and fined $ 12.
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Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley National Monument
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Mary Louise Smith (civil rights activist)
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civil rights
activist
Montgomery, Alabama
Rosa Parks
Montgomery bus boycott
Browder v. Gayle
United States District Court
United States Supreme Court
Montgomery, Alabama
Catholic
Rosa Parks
Fred Gray
Browder v. Gayle
Browder v. Gayle
United States District Court
Aurelia Browder
Claudette Colvin
Susie McDonald
Jeanetta Reese
United States Supreme Court
Montgomery bus boycott
March on Washington
Morris Dees
Rita Dove
Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks
Browder v. Gayle

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