{"id":419,"date":"2005-11-30T10:07:13","date_gmt":"2005-11-30T14:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shermandorn.com\/wordpress\/?p=419"},"modified":"2005-11-30T10:07:13","modified_gmt":"2005-11-30T14:07:13","slug":"joann-robinson-and-e-d-nixon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/?p=419","title":{"rendered":"Joann Robinson and E.D. Nixon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tomorrow is the 50th anniversary of Rosa Parks&#8217; staying seated on a Montgomery, Alabama, bus. Since her death, journalists should have had a chance to absorb some of the lesser-known details of her life and the boycott.  In particular, I hope that the commemorations honor the contributions of Joann (JoAnn?) Gibson Robinson and Edgar Daniel Nixon. Robinson was a teacher at Alabama State College and head at the time of the Women&#8217;s Political Council and had been a victim of city bus drivers before. Nixon was a labor leader and head of the state Voters League and NAACP. Nixon advised the Women&#8217;s Political Council in their preplanning for a boycott, and it was the WPC who decided <em>not<\/em> to start the boycott when other women had been arrested on city buses earlier in 1955.<br \/>\nI&#8217;d love to have been a fly on the wall when the ministers were meeting that day when Nixon and Robinson convinced them to lead a long-term organization: <em>All right, these women and E.D. say we need a leader. Martin, you&#8217;re going to be our leader, because you&#8217;ve only been here a short time, and it&#8217;ll cost the rest of us dearly if we have to escape town<\/em>. I know that&#8217;s not precisely what happened, but I also know the myth&#8217;s not quite right, either.<br \/>\nRobinson <em>did<\/em> write a memoir in the 1980s.  Does anyone know if and where she&#8217;s living today? She was born in 1912 and would be in her 90s.<br \/>\nSee the MLK Papers online entries for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stanford.edu\/group\/King\/about_king\/details\/551201b.htm\">Robinson<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stanford.edu\/group\/King\/about_king\/encyclopedia\/bus_boycott.html\">the boycott<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tomorrow is the 50th anniversary of Rosa Parks&#8217; staying seated on a Montgomery, Alabama, bus. Since her death, journalists should have had a chance to absorb some of the lesser-known details of her life and the boycott. In particular, I hope that the commemorations honor the contributions of Joann (JoAnn?) Gibson Robinson and Edgar Daniel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pag0MB-6L","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}