The American Negro Theater was formed on this day in 1940 by writer Abram Hill and actor Frederick O’Neal. It was founded with the blessing of the Federal Theater Project. It began a theater training program whose graduates included Sidney Poitier and Harry Belafonte.
On this day in 1956, a federal court ruled that segregation on Montgomery, Alabama city buses was unconstitutional. This was after months of boycotting city buses by the Montgomery Improvement Association bus boycott. The city appealed to the U.S. Supreme, which eventually upheld the lower court’s ruling.
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