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Aurelia Shines Browder Coleman (January 29, 1919 – February 4, 1971) was an African-American civil rights activist in Montgomery, Alabama. In April 1955, almost eight months before the arrest of Rosa Parks in the same city and a month after the arrest of Claudette Colvin , she was arrested for refusing to give up her bus seat to a ...
16 de jun. de 2011 · Aurelia Browder was one of the four African American women who challenged Montgomery's segregated bus system in 1955. Their case, Browder v. Gayle, led to the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that ended bus segregation in 1956.
Aurelia Browder was one of the four African American women who challenged the segregation of Montgomery buses in 1956. She and her lawyers won the case in the U.S. Supreme Court, which ended the Montgomery bus boycott and integrated the bus system.
On April 29, 1955, Aurelia Browder, like so many other black residents of Montgomery, was mistreated on a city bus. According to her testimony in the civil case, she was forced by the bus driver “to get up and stand to let a white man and a white lady sit down.”
4 de dic. de 2020 · Aurelia Browder was arrested seven months before Rosa Parks for refusing to give up her bus seat. She was the lead plaintiff in the case Browder vs. Gayle (William Gayle was the mayor of Montgomery), which resulted in the desegregation of public buses in the city and ultimately the rest of the nation.
Aurelia S. Browder was the lead plaintiff in the landmark case Browder v. Gayle, which challenged the segregation of Montgomery buses. Learn more about her life, the case, and the resources related to her story.
Aurelia Browder was a Montgomery woman, W. A. Gayle was the mayor of Montgomery. On June 5, 1956, the District Court ruled that "the enforced segregation of black and white passengers on motor buses operating in the City of Montgomery violates the Constitution and laws of the United States" because the conditions deprived people of ...
