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August 25, 2021

Lucille Times Dies at 100, Inspired Montgomery Bus Boycott
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The civil right activist Lucille Times has died at the age of 100. She
has been credited with inspiring the Montgomery Bus Boycott in Alabama.
Six months before a white bus driver in Montgomery ordered Rosa Parks be
arrested for refusing to relinquish her seat to a white man, Lucille
Times began her own boycott of the city's bus system after the same bus
driver tried to run her car off the road. Lucille Times died from
complications of COVID-19.


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