Episode 2328: A Look at Browder vs Gayle Decision, M.I.A. Rosa Parks & Civil Rights & The 14th Amendment. The Truth!!

 Aurelia S. Browder, Rosa Parks, The 14th Amendment

On this Anniversary of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, I speak with a Guest, Robert James of The Dexter King Memorial Baptist Church. He was a kid at the time of this Historical Event, I ask what life for him & Black people was like everyday during Segregated Times so we can understand of Living Conditions & Laws of that time.

On December 5th, 1955,  Rosa Park refused her seat on the Bus to a White Passenger. A few months later, the case of Browder vs Gayle, The Famous Court Case that challenged the Segregated Laws of Racial Discrimination on Public
Transportation, was underway.

Months BEFORE Rosa Parks, other Black Citizens refused their seat to passengers & got arrested, One was a 15 year old name: Claudette Colvin.

The main plaintiffs in the case were Aurelia S. Browder, Claudette Colvin, Susie McDonald, and Mary Louise Smith. Jeanetta Reese had originally been a plaintiff in the case, but intimidation by segregationists (including threatening phone calls and pressure from a senior police officer for whom she worked) caused her to withdraw in February 1956.

Filed by Fred Gray and Charles D. Langford on behalf of four African American women who had been mistreated on city buses, the case made its way to the U.S. Supreme Court, which upheld a district court ruling that the statute was unconstitutional. Gray and Langford filed the federal district court petition that became Browder v. Gayle on 1 February 1956, two days after segregationists bombed King’s house.

The list of defendants included Mayor William A. Gayle, the city’s chief of police, representatives from Montgomery’s Board of Commissioners, Montgomery City Lines, Inc., two bus drivers, and representatives of the Alabama Public Service Commission. Gray was aided in the case by Thurgood Marshalland other National Association for the Advancement of Colored People attorneys.

On June 5, 1956, the District Court ruled 2-1 that bus segregation is unconstitutional under the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

The state and city appealed, and the decision was summarily affirmed by the United States Supreme Court on November 13, 1956.

In 2019 a statue of Rosa Parks was unveiled in Montgomery, Alabama, and four granite markers were also unveiled near the statue on the same day to honor four plaintiffs in Browder v. Gayle Aurelia Browder, Susie McDonald, Claudette Colvin, and Mary Louise Smith. One of those plaintiffs, Mary Louise Smith, took part in the unveiling ceremony.

This is a Tribute to Mr. Robert James & ALL the ancestors who fought for Civil Rights for Black Citizens at that Time. They helped Change the World.

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