Jo Ann Robinson had worked to change the segregated bus system in Montgomery before the arrest of Rosa Parks.
Alabama State University has removed the name of a Klan leader from a building on its campus and replaced it with that of a woman who was a leader in the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
Jo Ann Robinson, an English professor at Alabama State College in the 1950s, was active in efforts to change the segregated bus system even before the arrest of Rosa Parks led to the yearlong bus boycott, according to today!
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