Susie McDonald

Susie McDonald, known to other black people as Miss Sue at the time, was one of the plaintiffs in the bus segregation lawsuit Browder v. Gayle (1956).[1][2] She was arrested for violating bus segregation law on October 21, 1955.[3][2][1][4] She was a widow at the time, in her seventies, walked with a cane, and was light-skinned enough to be mistaken for white by bus operators, though she enjoyed correcting this misconception.[1][5] Her husband Tom had done railroad work, and she received his pension.[1]

In the 1950s the McDonald family were the owners of a pavilion near Cleveland Avenue, known to black people as McDonald's Farm, where they could go without fear of racist violence.[1] It may be, as family lore has it, that the McDonalds were able to buy the land in the 19th century because they were thought to be white.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Hendrickson, Paul (1998-04-12). "The Ladies Before Rosa". The Washington Post. Retrieved 2018-01-10.
  2. 1 2 "Veterans of the Civil Rights Movement - Montgomery Bus Boycott Biographic Sketches". Crmvet.org. Retrieved 2018-01-10.
  3. ↑ Joyce A. Hanson (6 July 2011). Rosa Parks: A Biography: A Biography. ABC-CLIO. pp. 87–. ISBN 978-0-313-35218-8.
  4. ↑ Christopher M. Richardson; Ralph E. Luker (11 June 2014). Historical Dictionary of the Civil Rights Movement. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. pp. 499–. ISBN 978-0-8108-8037-5.
  5. ↑ Phillip Hoose (21 December 2010). Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice. Square Fish. pp. 95–. ISBN 978-0-312-66105-2.
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