Friday July 24, 2020
33 days before the 100th Anniversary of the Women’s Right to Vote
Inspirational Woman for Today is:
Jo Ann Robinson
Another interesting fact: In 1949 Jo Ann Robinson suffered a humiliating experience on a nearly empty public bus when the driver ordered her off for having sat in the fifth row. When she became WPC president in 1950, Robinson made the city’s segregated bus seating one of the top priorities of the organization. After Rosa Parks’ arrest in December 1955, Robinson seized the opportunity to put the long-considered protest into motion. Late that night, she, two students, and John Cannon, chairman of the Business Department at Alabama State, mimeographed and distributed approximately 52,500 leaflets calling for a boycott of the buses. (Courtesy KingInstitute.stanford.edu)
To learn more about this inspirational woman, go to Biography.com’s web page
