Martha White, woman who sparked ’53 Louisiana capital bus boycott, dies at 99
White, then 23, was working as a housekeeper in the capital city of Baton Rouge in 1953 when she took action Martha White, a Black woman whose actions helped launch the 1953 bus boycotts in Louisiana’s capital city, has died. She was 99. White died Saturday, her family and others confirmed. White, then 23, was…