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- DIED. A.W. Wilson, 87, pastor for 50 years of the
- Montgomery church that in 1955 became the headquarters for
- Martin Luther King Jr.'s landmark bus boycott; in Montgomery.
- The yearlong protest began with a meeting at Wilson's Holt
- Street Baptist Church, after black seamstress Rosa Parks refused
- to relinquish her seat to a white man on a city-owned segregated
- bus.
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