Being located in the deep south and being a historically black college, Florida A&M; does pop up a lot as being at the forefront of civil rights activity.

The event that comes up a lot seems to be a 1956 bus boycott that took place after students Carrie Patterson and Wilhemina Jakes were arrested for sitting in the white section of a bus. The local Tallahassee community rallied around the students' boycott to the extent that people were getting arrested en-masse for giving rides to protesters. Tallahassee jails were overflowing when the Supreme Court ruled that the similar bus segregation taking place in Montgomery, Alabama, was unconstitutional.
Source(s):
http://www.crmvet.org/tim/timhis56.htm
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9862643/
http://tallahassee.com/article/20090131/FAMU/901310321/1001/RSS


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