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| The late Mrs. Thelma Glass |
We
have lost another icon in Mrs. Thelma Glass a former Alabama teacher and a
pioneer in the civil rights movement.
Almost
a decade before the arrest of Rosa Parks in 1955 sparked the Montgomery bus
boycott and helped catapult civil rights to the political forefront, a group of
teachers at the historically black Alabama State College in Montgomery formed
the Women’s Political Council to campaign against the abuses and indignities of
segregation.
Many
of the women remained historical footnotes, which did not sit well with Thelma
Glass, who was secretary of the Women’s Political Council and helped champion
the boycott long before it happened. “The men talked about it, you know, but we
were ready to take action,” Mrs. Glass told an Alabama State publication last
year.
Mrs.
Glass joined the organization soon after she began teaching at Alabama State in
1947.
Mrs.
Glass died July 24 at 96.
