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Lucille Times, Who Inspired the Montgomery Bus Boycott, Dies at 100

Lucille Times in 2005. “She was like an iron fist in a velvet glove,” a former Alabama attorney general said. “She didn’t get pushed around.”
Lucille Times in 2005. “She was like an iron fist in a velvet glove,” a former Alabama attorney general said. “She didn’t get pushed around.”Credit…Rainier Ehrhardt/Special to the Montgomery Advertiser, via USA TODAY NETWORK

By Clay Risen Published Aug. 22, 2021 Updated Sept. 1, 2021

Lucille Times, whose encounter with a bus driver in Montgomery, Ala., in June 1955 led her to begin a one-woman boycott of the city’s public transportation, an act of defiance that inspired a mass boycott six months later after another Black woman, Rosa Parks, was charged with defying the same bus driver, died on Aug. 16 at the home of her nephew Daniel Nichols. She was 100. Read her obituary HERE.

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