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What prominent role during the Civil Rights Movement to present day?
What role did the FAMU do during the Civil Rights Movement to present day?
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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.
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.
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