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Mrs. Johnnie Carr, 97, Is Dead. Civil Rights Leader

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

?Look back, but march forward,? Mrs. Carr urged the huge crowd of young people. February 26, 2008 Johnnie Carr, 97, Is Dead; Was Active in Bus Boycott By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) ? Johnnie Carr, an early civil rights activist who joined a childhood friend, Rosa Parks, in the historic Montgomery bus boycott and stayed involved in the movement up to her final days, died here on Friday. She was 97. Her death was confirmed by a spokeswoman for Baptist Medical Center South, where she had been hospitalized after a stroke on Feb. 11. Mrs. Carr succeeded the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. as president of the Montgomery Improvement Association in 1967, a post she held at her death. It was that group that led the boycott of city buses in 1955 after Mrs...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on February 26, 2008 (boomark / email).