E. D. Nixon

Released
Date of birth:12. 07. 1899
Date of death:25. 02. 1987
Age:87† Deceased
Gender:Male
Race:Black
Era:1950s
State:Alabama
Support
Civil Rights Labor Organizing NAACP
E. D. Nixon

Biography

Edgar Daniel Nixon was a Pullman porter, union organizer, longtime NAACP leader, and a principal organizer of the Montgomery bus boycott. A grand jury indicted him and other boycott leaders on February 21, 1956 under Alabama’s anti-boycott law. Nixon reported for arrest on February 22, was booked and fingerprinted at the county jail, and was released on $300 bond the same day.

Case

Charges: Violating Alabama’s anti-boycott law by organizing the Montgomery bus boycott
Arrested: Feb 22, 1956
Released: Feb 22, 1956
Sentence: Booked, fingerprinted, and released on $300 bond the same day; no overnight confinement established.

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