According to Jo Ann Gibson Robinson, people in Montgomery did not use the word "integration" because to admit that black Americans were seeking to integrate would have been too much; there would have been much bloodshed and arrests of those who dared to disclose such an idea.
Jo Ann Gibson Robinson was born on April 17, 1912, in Culloden, Georgia. She was an African American civil rights activist and educator.
Robinson organized a city bus boycott by African Americans in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1955 that changed the course of civil rights in America.
Find out more about Jo Ann Robinson at the following sites:
King Encyclopedia
African America Registry
Encyclopedia of Alabama