# @ridetarc on Facebook

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.facebook.com/630632059072389/posts/897053042430288
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/11202783-ridetarc-facebook
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/thumbnails/eca5d1b7cd.jpg
- **Posted:** 2024-02-19T21:10:44.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Transit Authority of River City (TARC) (@ridetarc) — https://gondola.cc/ridetarc

## Caption

In June 1953, Reverend T.J. Jemison led Black citizens of Baton Rouge in a boycott of the city's public transportation system. Those boycotting set up a system of fare-free taxis while the boycott was in place. The boycott lasted only about a week, but Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. used the Baton Rouge Bus Boycott as a model for the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott. 

You can learn more here: https://64parishes.org/entry/baton-rouge-bus-boycott

📷: Ernest Ritchie 

#BlackHistoryMonth #SaveaSeat

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