I think he was 27.hopefully this helps
Montgomery bus boycott, mass protest against the bus system of Montgomery, Alabama, by civil rights activists and their supporters that led to a 1956 U.S. Supreme Court decision declaring that Montgomery's segregation laws on buses were unconstitutional. The 381-day bus boycott also brought the Rev.(Britannica.com)
The obvious answer would be business leaders. The reason why this is true is becaus business leaders were often the ones who were touting the ideas of social darwinism and how their company is better and will stomp out the smaller one in proper sociodarwinistic fashion.
In the American Revolution, privateers transported arms, munitions and tropical products to the American continent. ... Following the American Revolution, many former privateers became captains on merchant ships, because without war, privateering was no longer needed on such a large scale.
