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  1. Apr 3, 2014 · Nixon and his second wife, Arlette, worked together in the civil rights movement. Nixon died in Montgomery on February 25, 1987, at the age of 87.

  2. Feb 27, 1987 · Edgar Daniel Nixon, who selected the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to lead the Montgomery bus boycott in 1955, died here Wednesday night. He was 87 years old.

  3. Nixon died at the age of 87 in Montgomery on February 25, 1987. Awards and honors. In 1985, Nixon received the Walter White Award from the NAACP. In 1986, a year before his death, Nixon's house in Montgomery was placed on the Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage, in recognition of his leadership in the state.

  4. May 31, 2011 · E.D. Nixon was given the NAACP’s Walter White Award for public service in 1985. Edgar Daniel Nixon died on February 25, 1987 in Montgomery at the age of 87. In 2001, to honor his work as a civil rights leader the Montgomery County Public School System named an elementary school after him.

  5. Mar 1, 2024 · Nixon died on February 25, 1987 at Baptist Hospital in Montgomery. People from all walks of life came to the funeral of this civil-rights icon at Bethel Baptist Church in Montgomery. Nixon generally has been overlooked by historians, and his importance in the bus boycott has been downplayed by some participants associated with it.

  6. Apr 23, 1994 · Richard Nixon, who strode the world stage for decades and was the only American President to resign his office to avoid impeachment, died Friday night, four days after suffering a stroke. He was...

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  8. Feb 28, 1987 · Edward Daniel Nixon, who organized the 1955 Montgomery, Ala., bus boycott after a black woman was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white man, has died. He was 87.

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