From the Montgomery Advertiser, August 1, 2005:

As the 50th anniversary of the Montgomery Bus Boycott in December approaches, the Montgomery City-County Library Board has a unique opportunity to commemorate the boycott in an appropriate way by naming a library for former city librarian Juliette Morgan.

Morgan was a white librarian whose public support for the black citizens who challenged the city's segregated bus system caused her to be the target of ridicule and abuse from many white citizens. Those attacks, including threats to boycott the library she loved, eventually led her to commit suicide.

For some time before the Montgomery Bus Boycott, this quiet librarian from one of Montgomery's socially prominent families had written letters to the editor of the Montgomery Advertiser in which she was critical of the treatment of black citizens, especially by city bus drivers.

Read more of Juliette Morgan's story here.