Heroes
More than 100 Montgomery Bus Boycott activists were arrested in February 1956 for participating in the boycott. These courageous women and men took on enormous risks to unite and mobilize against racial segregation and humiliation on public transportation.
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Alfred Ellis
George H. Jordan
The Rev. W.J. Powell
Euretta F. Adair
Isiah Ferguson
Eli Judkins
James T. Primus
Clarence Adams
The Rev. Edgar N. French
Mathew Kennedy
Mose W. Richburg
The Rev. Willie F. Alford
Jimmie Gamble
J.N. King
Jo Ann Robinson
The Rev. Burl Mack Averhart
John H. Garrison
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Landy Robinson
Ida Mae Baker
Tommy Gilchrist
Jackson Knox
Lillie Bell Robinson
J.H. Baker
The Rev. R.J. Glasco
The Rev. B.D. Lambert
Natis Robinson
The Rev. A. Edward Banks
Fred D. Gray
Audrey Belle Langford
Richard Rose
Sam Barnett
Thomas Gray
Clarence W. Lee
J.C. Sanders
Walter Lee Bell
Addie James Hamerter
E.H. Ligon
The Rev. Solomon S. Seay
The Rev. L. Roy Bennett
Will Hardman
Jimmie L. Lowe
The Rev. B.J. Simms
Arthur Bibbins
The Rev. Joshua W. Hayes
The Rev. Simon Peter McBride
The Rev. J.C. Smith
The Rev. R.B. Binion
The Rev. S. Heard
Henry A. McClain
Walter Smith
Mose Bishop
George Henderson
Augustus McHaney
Frank L. Taylor
The Rev. J.W. Bonner
John Green Hill
Freddie Morris
James Thornton
The Rev. Eddie Bradford
The Rev. A.H. Hoffman
Walter Moss
Wesley Tolbert
Samuel Brown
Booker T. Holmes
The Rev. Arthur W. Murphy
Calvin Varner
Norris Butler
The Rev. H.H. Hubbard
E.D. Nixon
Lottie Green Varner
Otis A. Carlton
Edward Jackson
The Rev. H.J. Palmer
L.C. Walker
Mary L. Carr
Mose Jackson
Rosa Parks
Eli Washington
Osbourne C. Chambliss
Jacob James
Wilson Patrick
Georgia Wilkerson
The Rev. J.H. Cherry
The Rev. H.H. Johnson
Annie Patterson
Edward Williams
Louis Christburg
Mentha L. Johnson
Judge Pickett
The Rev. Henry Williams
Dr. M.C. Cleveland
Robert Johnson
James E. Pierce
Ronald R. Young
The Rev. Fred L. Davis
Dr. Moses W. Jones
