Background
Glass was born Thelma McWilliams in Mobile, Alabama, to a hotel cook and homemaker.
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Thelma Glass
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She graduated from Dunbar High School (Mobile) and attended Alabama State University and Columbia University.
Career
Glass had joined the organization in 1947 and in 1955 was its secretary. The Review Doctor Martin Luther King Junior. joined in the protests as well and worked with her. She passed out fliers, alerted the community, and urged passengers to walk or car-pool.
Soon she noticed every bus that went by was empty of passengers.
Although there was sometimes violent retaliation, the boycott continued and eventually the Supreme Court ruled that segregation on buses was unconstitutional and the boycott ended. Glass died in 2012 at the age of 96.
Membership
In 1955, after Rosa Parks" arrest, Glass and the other members of the Women"s Political Council, called for a boycott of the Montgomery bus system, thus beginning the Montgomery Business Boycott, a key action in the Civil Rights Movement.
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American