E. D. Nixon, who had worked as a Pullman porter, was the one who bailed Rosa Parks out of jail after she refused to move on the bus, and he was the one who selected her as the figure to build the boycott around.
E. D. Nixon, who had worked as a Pullman porter, helped plan the Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott of 1955-56. He was the one who bailed Rosa Parks out of jail after she refused to move on the bus, and the one who selected her as the figure to build the boycott around.