Johnnie Carr formed the Montgomery Improvement Association after Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to forfeit a bus seat to a white man. Carr was a leader in the Civil Rights Movement from 1955 until her death. Johnnie Rebecca Carr was born Johnnie Rebecca Daniels in Montgomery, Alabama, on January 26, 1911. Her father, John, […]

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