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On December 28, 1956, barely one week after the Montgomery Bus Boycott had ended and the busing system in Montgomery was finally integrated, sniper gunshots struck Rosa Jordan, a 22-year-old Black woman who was eight months pregnant, as she rode an integrated bus through a Black neighborhood.
- “A Gross Omission”
- Dear’s Baby
- A Living Legacy
- “The Family Needs This”
He said that in the 66 years since Rosa Jordan was shot, he’s unaware of any efforts by law enforcement – local, state, or federal – or by members of the media to tell Dear’s story. “It’s a gross omission,” Tommy said. When he himself found out the extent of what his mother had endured, he was angry. “That anger was compounded when I found out that...
Rose Timmons was born on January 16, 1957, less than a month after she and her mother survived the attempt to shoot them dead. For her whole life, Dear called Rose her special baby. And for decades, she never knew exactly why. “You’ll all understand one day,” Rose remembers her mother telling her on more than one occasion. That day is only now comi...
But it’s not just the shooting’s impact on the family that’s gone unnoticed all these years, the Jordan family said. It’s their successes. It’s their ups and downs – their happy days and their sad ones. Rosa Nolan Jordan – Dear – left a legacy, and until now, it’s gone untold. But while, for decades, the police forgot what happened to Jordan, and w...
Tommy Jordan said law enforcement should launch an investigation into the 1956 shooting of his mother Rosa. He’s realistic about the limited possibilities an investigation may bring, he said, but it’s an injustice to let this act of violence, borne of hatred, fade into the background. State Rep. Phillip Ensler said every effort should be made to he...
- Lee Hedgepeth
Sep 17, 2021 · Rosa Jordan, a pregnant Black woman, was shot on a Montgomery bus just days after the Bus Boycott had ended.
- Mildred Europa Taylor
Rosa Jordan grew up in the Florida Everglades, earned degrees from universities in California and Mexico, and immigrated to Canada in 1980. Her earliest writings were in the field of journalism, articles drawn from high-risk travels in Central and South America.
Rosa Jordan, a pregnant black Montgomery resident, is shot while riding a bus. Police Commissioner Sellers orders all bus runs suspended for the rest of the night.
by Rosa Jordan Sánchez (1920-1980) was the organizing brain behind the Revolution, who ran the guerrilla bases in the Sierra Maestra. Fidel’s secretary and reputed lover, she played a central role in the Revolution and after, until her cancer death in 1980.
Note: On December 28, 1956, barely one week after the Montgomery Bus Boycott had ended and the busing system in Montgomery was finally integrated, sniper gunshots struck Rosa Jordan, a 22-year-old Black woman who was 8 months pregnant, as she rode an integrated bus through a Black neighborhood.
