Edgar Daniel “E.D.” Nixon was known as an American Civil Rights leader and union organizer in Alabama who played a crucial role in organizing the Montgomery bus boycott in 1955. Some of his attributes to the Civil Rights Movement were, president of the local chapter of the NAACP, the Montgomery Welfare League, and the Montgomery Voters League. He also worked for voter rights and Civil Rights for African Americans in Montgomery. Edgar helped organize and led the Montgomery branch of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters' union; in 1943. Nixon and lawyer Arthur Madison founded the Alabama Voters' League. In the early 1950s, Edgar Nixon and Jo Ann Robinson, president of the Women's Political Council, challenged the discriminatory seating practices on Montgomery's municipal buses, which included the boycott of the bus company. After Rosa Parks’ arrest, Nixon called a number of local ministers to organize support for the boycott; the third man he called was Martin Luther King Jr.
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Church Affiliation:Bethel Baptist Church
Role in the Movement:Edgar Daniel “E.D.” Nixon was known as an American Civil Rights leader and union organizer in Alabama who played a crucial role in organizing the Montgomery bus boycott.
Birth Place:Lowndes County, AL
Born Date:July 12, 1899
Deceased Date:February 25, 1987
Place Lived as Adult:Montgomery, AL
Church Location:Montgomery, AL