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“The Montgomery Bus Boycott,” by Jo Ann Robinson is a compelling autobiography about how fifty thousand black citizens of Montgomery, Alabama said no more to segregation, inhuman treatment, violence and the humiliation that they received not only from the Bus Company, but from white citizens and high ranking political figures as well. Working diligently with great, influential black leaders, Robinson and the group she led help organized a boycott that started a civil rights movement that would last a decade. Jo Ann Robinson was a well educated professor at Alabama State College where she taught English from 1949 until she resigned, because of increasing political pressure by a special state committee, in 1960. Feeling as though it was time to move on Robinson went to teach in four other states (Georgia, Texas, Louisiana, and California). Her teaching career ended in 1976 giving her a total of thirty-four years as an educator. In addition to being a profound professor she also contributed a substantial amount of her time to support the efforts of the Montgomery bus boycott. For example, she was president of the Women’s Political Counsel (WPC) college chapter, an organization of black women founded by Dr. Mary Fair Burks in