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| NAME = Pollard, Mother |
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| SHORT DESCRIPTION = American civil rights activist |
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| DATE OF BIRTH = ca. 1882–1885 |
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Revision as of 12:26, 10 February 2013
Mother Pollard was one of the participants in the Montgomery Bus Boycott, a seminal event in the U.S. civil rights movement that produced a political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama. Martin Luther King Jr. recounted in his writings[1] that after several weeks of walking to her destinations rather than take the bus, Mother Pollard was asked if she was tired, to which she replied, "My feets is tired, but my soul is rested."[2]
It was also told, in Freedom Walkers that she was close to being 72 years old. She was old, yet she had more faith and courage than any other person could have asked of her.[3]
References
- ^ May 14[dead link]
- ^ King, Martin Luther, Jr. (1963). "IV". The Strength to Love. New York: Harper & Row. pp. 125–127. OCLC 577614.
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Related article: "The Strength to Love by The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (1963). From Chapter IV" (PDF). Jan Hus Presbyterian Church & Neighborhood House / RayBagnuolo.net. 16 January 2011. pp. 7–8. - ^ Kasher, Steven (1996). The Civil Rights Movement: A Photographic History, 1954–68. New York: Abbeville Press. pp. 35, 37, 172, 253. ISBN 0789201232. OCLC 34076501.
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