Mary Louise Smith: The Montgomery Bus Boycott

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Do you know who Mary Louise Smith is? Mary Louise Smith, later Mary Louise Smith Ware, was a major contribution to The Montgomery Bus Boycott. She was one of the first women to refuse to give up her seat on a bus before Rosa Parks. She was 18 years old when she refused to give up her seat for a white man. This is her story. Mary Louise Smith was a colored women who was born in 1937 in the city of Montgomery, Alabama. When she was 18 she refused to give up her seat on a bus to let a white man sit. She did this because she was sitting in the black section of the bus and felt entitled to her seat. The bus driver called the cops, Mary Louise Smith was arrested and charged with violation of segregation laws. After her arrest Mary Louise Smith fought

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