Before legal analyst and podcaster Angela Rye joined tens of thousands of others marching for civil rights in Montgomery, Alabama for All Roads Lead to the South, she stopped by the Black Media Matters Studio to tell us that only 10% of Montgomery’s population participated in the bus boycott that successfully secured the right for Black people to sit where they chose on buses, according to her Native Land Pod co-host Andrew Gillum.

For Rye, the current power of unified action is the key to making a mighty blow. “We have always been a powerful people,” she said.

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