Primary Source

Letter from W. C. Patton to Roy Wilkins and Gloster B. Current

NAACP Records via Library of Congress

Scan of a document. — Letter from W.C. Patton, NAACP Alabama Field Secretary, to NAACP Executive Director Roy Wilkins and Director of Branches Gloster B. Current about the Montgomery bus boycott, December 19, 1955. Source: NAACP Records, Library of Congress.

Source: NAACP Records, Library of Congress.

Scan of a document. — Letter from W.C. Patton, NAACP Alabama Field Secretary, to NAACP Executive Director Roy Wilkins and Director of Branches Gloster B. Current about the Montgomery bus boycott, December 19, 1955.

Source: NAACP Records, Library of Congress.

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Hidden in Plain Sight: Black Female Leadership in the Montgomery Bus Boycott

This lesson brings forward the stories of Black women and girls whose activism and leadership were key to the success of the Montgomery Bus Boycott.