Women played large roles in what followed in Montgomery and in other demonstrations to come. Jo Ann Robinson, a black English teacher, moved quickly. Hearing of Parks's arrest, she stayed up most of the night, with other members of the Women's Political Council of Montgomery, which she headed, to print protest leaflets, some 50,000 in all, to be distributed in the next few days.71 The contribution of women like Robinson did not suggest that they were angrier than men; the mounting impatience of involved black people knew no gender boundaries. But black women were often a little less
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