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E. D. Nixon (1899–1987) was born in Lowndes County, Alabama, the son of Wesley Nixon, a Baptist preacher, and Sue Chapell Nixon, a maid. He had little formal education. He worked as a Pullman porter from 1923 to 1964 and was mentored by union leader A. Philip Randolph. Nixon founded the Montgomery Division of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters in 1938. During the 1940s he organized the ...
Lowndes County native, E. D. Nixon was a long-time leader of the civil rights movement in Alabama. He worked tirelessly to increase the number of registered black voters in Montgomery and was one of the key organizers of several civil rights organizations in the state. In 1945, he was elected as the president of the Montgomery chapter of the NAACP, just two years later becoming the state ...
27. Feb. 1987 · Edgar Daniel Nixon, who selected the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to lead the Montgomery bus boycott in 1955, died here Wednesday night. He was 87 years old. He was 87 years old.
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Nixon ist eine US-amerikanische Filmbiografie aus dem Jahr 1995 von Oliver Stone . Der Film erzählt in nicht chronologischer Folge die Geschichte des 37. Präsidenten der Vereinigten Staaten, Richard Nixon. Der Schwerpunkt liegt auf der Zeit von 1960 – Nixons Niederlage bei der Präsidentschaftswahl gegen John F. Kennedy – bis zu seinem ...
Nixon, Edgar Daniel. "Union leader and civil rights advocate E. D. Nixon was a prominent figure in the Montgomery bus boycott, the event that launched Martin Luther King, Jr. into the national spotlight. Described by King as a "foe of injustice" and as a man who "worked fearlessly to achieve the rights of this people and to rouse the Negroes ...
