Thomas Edwards Brooks

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Thomas Edwards Brooks was a young African-American man who was shot and killed while running away from police after an incident on a racially segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama in 1950.

Brooks boarded the bus from the front, paid the driver and was told to get off the bus and board from the rear. He refused. An argument ensued and a policeman struck him on the head with a club. He pushed the driver and policeman out of the way and ran. The policeman shouted “stop” and then shot and killed him. Civil rights activist E.D. Nixon filed a complaint, but the policeman was never indicted. Brooks was a twenty-one year old Private First Class when he died.

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