(Cheryl)  The Greyhound bus represents these riders who bravely tried to desegregate bus stations in 1961
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Freedom Riders - Wikipedia  Freedom Riders were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated ... Like the Freedom Rides of 1961, the Journey of Reconciliation was intended to ... The driver tried to leave the station, but was blocked until KKK members ... However, radio reports told of the mob awaiting the riders at the bus terminal,...
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Freedom Rides of 1961 - Civil Rights Movement Veterans  The First Ride (1961) ... On May 4, CORE Director James Farmer leads 13 Freedom Riders (7 Black, ... Riders in Anniston AL, attacking the Greyhound bus, ... tries to flee, but the attackers give chase, halting it on the .... 1,000, expands outward from the Greyhound terminal attacking Blacks on the .... desegregation order.
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Get On the Bus: The Freedom Riders of 1961 : NPR  Jan 12, 2006 ... Raymond Arsenault is the author of 'Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice'. ... George Webb in the Birmingham Trailways bus station, May 14, 1961. ... Peck, trying to avoid a last-minute panic, relayed Shuttlesworth's .... A police car escorted the battered Greyhound to the city limits but...
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Get On the Bus: The Freedom Riders of 1961 | Freedom Riders, The ...  Raymond A | See more about Freedom Riders, The Bus and Buses. ... This film tells the powerful story of the Freedom Riders taking brave and ..... whites, and desegregated dozens of bus and train stations from Virginia to Texas. ... These Black-built, Black-owned buildings were prosperous before envious ..... Cheryl Brown .
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1000+ ideas about Freedom Riders on Pinterest | Civil rights, Civil ...  Cheryl Brown . ... A Greyhound bus that carried Freedom Riders burns after being set ablaze by Ku ... 1961 Freedom Riders Poster | "The Freedom Rides eventually ... and desegregated dozens of bus and train stations from Virginia to Texas. ..... These are the mug shots of the Freedom Riders as they were arrested in 1961.
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History of Greyhound Lines, Inc.  FundingUniverse  Read about the history of Greyhound Lines, Inc. Explore the company's history, ... 1987: The bus operations of Greyhound Corporation are purchased by a ... in Hibbing Transport, establishing a pattern of merging with competitors that .... In March 1987 a Dallas-based investment group led by Fred G. Currey purchased the...
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Claudette Colvin - Wikipedia  Claudette Colvin is a pioneer of the African American Civil Rights Movement. On March 2, 1955, she was the first person arrested for resisting bus segregation in Montgomery, Alabama. Colvin was among the five plaintiffs originally included in the federal court case filed by civil rights attorney Fred Gray on February 1, 1956, ... Claudette Colvin: "Young people think Rosa Parks just sat down on a bus...
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Artist brings new beginning for Rosa Parks' Detroit home  Sep 25, 2016 ... Parks became an international civil rights icon after she refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger in 1955 in Montgomery, Ala., an...
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Good morning folks! "I believe we are here on the planet Earth to live ...  On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks' act of rebellion on a Montgomery, .... Rosa Parks when questioned about that famous incident of her refusing to give up her front buss seat to a younger white man. ..... "All I was doing was trying to get home from work. ... In her autobiography, she says, I was not tired physically or n.
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Arizona Republic from Phoenix, Arizona  Page 34 - Newspapers.com  Probably all of us have it one time or another been guilty of this senseless cruelty, ... see the_scenery "close up," smooth air suspension ride and a fully equipped ... To meet the constantly growing travel demands, The Greyhound Corporation ... assurance that, "It's such a comfort to take the bus and leave the driving to us.
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Riots over desegregation of Ole Miss - Sep 30, 1962 - HISTORY.com  On this day in History, Riots over desegregation of Ole Miss on Sep 30, 1962. ... The next day, Meredith successfully enrolled and began to attend classes amid ... in 1962, but his admission was revoked when the registrar learned of his race. ... Ole Miss to admit him, but when he tried to register on September 20, 1962,...
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Veterans of the Civil Rights Movement -- History & Timeline, 1960  1960 was the year of the student-led lunch-counter sit-ins. ... In this way they prevented the courts from overturning the segregation ordinances on appeal, and ..... The mayor knew now that he would have to speak to us. .... segregation in any way and threatens to cut off funding to the school if his orders are not carried out.
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April 20, 1971 | Supreme Court Rules That Busing Can Be Used to ...  Apr 20, 2012 ... On April 20, 1971, the United States Supreme Court upheld the use of ... Site Mobile Navigation ... from the suburbs to an inner city school in Charlotte, N.C., in 1973. ... that the school district must use busing to achieve racial diversity in ... a 1974 court decision to integrate the schools of predominantly black...
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Rosa Parks is best known for her role as a civil-rights activist, the ...  Rosa Parks #mugshot December 1 1955, she refuses to give up her seat for a white ..... a clue about the bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama in 1955 and 1956, .... Parks had been an active member of the local NAACP chapter since 1943 and .... On Monday, December 5, a new organization was to lead the boycott effort.
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Rosa Parks ignites bus boycott - Dec 01, 1955 - HISTORY.com  ... Alabama, Rosa Parks is jailed for refusing to give up her seat on a public bus to a ... when the white driver demanded that she give up her seat to a white man. ... Learning of Parks' arrest, the NAACP and other African American activists...
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Rosa Parks - Civil Rights Activist - Biography.com  Feb 18, 2016 ... Civil rights activist Rosa Parks refused to surrender her bus seat to a white ... Her refusal to surrender her seat to a white passenger on a Montgomery, Alabama bus ... with a shotgun while Ku Klux Klan members marched down the street. .... and both Martin Luther King Jr.'s and E.D. Nixon's homes were...
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Rosa Parks - Black History - HISTORY.com  On December 1, 1955 Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus in ... By refusing to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Alabama, city bus in 1955, ... She moved with her parents, James and Leona McCauley, to Pine Level, ... word of her arrest had spread quickly and E.D. Nixon was there when Parks...
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Rosa Parks - Wikipedia  On December 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, Parks refused to obey bus driver James F. Blake's order to give up her seat in the colored section to a white passenger, after the white section was filled. Parks was not the first person to resist bus segregation.
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Greyhound Bus Museum - Wikipedia  The Greyhound Bus Museum is located in Hibbing, Minnesota, United States, where Carl Wickman and Andrew "Bus Andy" Anderson started their first bus service in 1914 transporting fellow miners in a 1914 Hupmobile ... The museum has since acquired a number of buses associated with the Greyhound Line operation.
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<http://www.haworthpress.com/store/E-Text/View_EText.asp?sid ...  From Civil War to Civil Rights: Sellling Alabama as Heritage Tourism. ... Birmingham, whose blast furnaces had long identified the city as the symbol of the ..... the local white supremacist group and turned it into the National Voting Rights Museum in 1992. .... Footsteps to Freedom tour that takes African American tourists to...
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African Americans boycott buses for integration in Montgomery ...  Aug 29, 2011 ... The yearlong boycott of Montgomery, Alabama's city buses by between ... but that afternoon, African American clergy and community leaders decided ... In September 1956, the Montgomery mayor asked the city legal team to...