Longtime Professor Thelma Glass, Who Helped Organize Montgomery, Ala., Bus Boycott, Dies At 96
Source: AP / The Washington Post
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Thelma McWilliams Glass, a longtime professor and civil rights pioneer who helped organize the Montgomery bus boycott, died on Wednesday. She was 96.
A statement from Alabama State University, where Glass was a professor of geography, said she died but did not give a cause.
“The ASU family lost one of its crown jewels today,” said President William H. Harris. “Mrs. Glass was the consummate educator, whose life was a shining example of service, courage and commitment. She will be truly missed.”
Glass was one of a group of women who helped put together the bus boycott in Montgomery in 1955. The effort came together after Rosa Parks, an African-American woman, was arrested for refusing to surrender her seat to a white person.
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