After The Boycott
Nixon's relationship with the MIA was contentious. He frequently had sharp disagreements with others in the group. He expressed resentment that King and Abernathy had received most of the credit for the boycott as opposed to the local activists who had spent years struggling against racism. Nixon resigned his post as MIA treasurer with a bitter letter to King complaining that he had been treated as a child. Nixon continued to feud with Montgomery's Black middle class community for the next decade.
By the late 1960s, through a series of political defeats, his leadership role in the MIA was eliminated. After retiring from the railroad, Nixon worked as the recreation director of a public housing project.
Edgar Nixon died at age 87 on February 25, 1987.
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