Mr. Edgar Daniel Nixon

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  24 hours after her arrest, Parks was bailed out of jail by Edgar Nixon, president of the NAACP and her friend, and long time employer, Clifford Durr.
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  Nixon spent the better part of that night conferring with a professor named Jo Ann Robinson from the Alabama State College.
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  The NAACP, and particularly its president, Edgar Nixon backed both Parks and the MIA in their plans to stage a boycott.Nixon felt that they had finally found a subject worthy of being in the middle of a civil rights uprising.

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  The most important step forward was in Montgomery, Alabama, where longtime NAACP activists Rosa Parks and Edgar Nixon prevailed on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. to lead the Montgomery Bus Boycott of 1955-1956.
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  BSCP members such as Edgar Nixon played a significant role in the civil rights struggles of the following decades.

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  In 1955, with the assistance of Reverend Ralph Abernathy and Edgar Daniel Nixon, King successfully organized the Montgomery, Alabama bus boycott in response to the arrest of Rosa Parks.
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  (1900-1987) Nixon, a railroad porter, was President of the Montgomery, Alabama branch of the NAACP when Rosa Parks became its secretary.
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  Mr. Nixon recognized in Rosa Parks the ideal test case to protest segregation on Montgomery, Alabama's buses.
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  Nixon helped mobilize the black community to attend the initial meeting about the boycott and alerted the press.Nixon was a long-time activist with the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters union in fighting for union wages and better working conditions in Alabama.His organizing skills, learned in his trade's union, and his determination, were critical to success of the bus boycott.

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  The most important step forward was in Montgomery, Alabama, where longtime NAACP activists Rosa Parks and Edgar Nixon prevailed on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. to lead the Montgomery Bus Boycott of 1955-1956.

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  After many years of influence by her husband, who was already a member, Rosa joined the NAACP in1943 and was made the secretary to its president, Edgar Nixon.

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  Starting on December 5, 1955, NAACP activists, including local president Edgar Nixon and former chapter secretary Rosa Parks, helped to organize the Montgomery Bus Boycott in Montgomery, Alabama.

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  It was this ability to move large audiences that caught the eye of Edgar D. Nixon, a local leader of the NAACP.
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  Nixon decided to seize this opportunity and stage a boycott of public transportation.

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  Edgar Daniel Nixon (Von Coulter) : One of Mr. Nixon's greatest causes was voter registration among African Americans.He insisted that every member of his staff at the NAACP be registered to vote.However, the exam, which was only given to blacks, was difficult and the registrar was not obligated to tell those trying to register why they failed.A Pullman Porter by trade, and active in the sleeping Car Porter's Union, "E.D.," as he was known, had little formal education.He was a dignified, charismatic man and the president of the Montgomery Chapter of the NAACP in the 1940s when Rosa officially joined as his secretary.

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  The Parkses joined the Montgomery Voters' League, led by Edgar Daniel Nixon, a Pullman porter who was one of the city's most active black citizens.As founding president of Montgomery's branch of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and president of its NAACP chapter, Nixon was a tireless fighter.

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  Edgar Daniel Nixon, head of the NAACP in Montgomery, posted a $100 bond to get her released.
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  bus, Mr. Nixon decided that she wouldn't be the last.He called a meeting of black leaders to see what

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