107 Jamz Celebrates Black History Month – Today In Black History February 12th [Video]
This Black History month we salute African American who made American history.
More than 60 people showed up, seven of whom were African American (including W. E. B. Du Bois, Ida B. Wells-Barnett and Mary Church Terrell). The NAACP's objective is to ensure the political, educational, social and economic equality of minority citizens in United States. The NAACP seeks to remove all barriers of racial discrimination through the democratic processes.
On this day in 1962, the bus boycott of 1962 in Macon, Georgia was led by William “Billy” Randall. This was a pivotal event in the civil rights movement in Macon. [video of Billy Randall addressing a mass meeting] The bus boycott was a campaign to end segregation on the Macon city buses and to increase the employment of blacks as bus drivers and mechanics. Mr. Randall requested that Linton D. Baggs, head of the Bibb County transit company, desegregate the busses, but Mr. Baggs refused. The boycott of the Macon buses began on February 12, 1962, and it lasted for three weeks. Even though there was a restraining order against Randall and the other leaders, they continued to lead the boycott. Judge William Bootle ruled that segregated bus seating laws were unconstitutional, and ordered the transit company to put an end to segregated bus seating. The bus boycott was ended by a mutual decision of both black and white Maconites, who agreed that it was the best decision to end the boycott at that particular time. To everyone’s surprise, the boycott ended quite peaceably, without any mass demonstrations or violent eruptions.