To sustain the boycott, communities organised carpools and the Montgomery's African-American taxi drivers charged only 10 cents - the same price as bus fare - for fellow African Americans.
Chesterfield Township police are probing reports of a man approaching students at a bus stop, prompting community and school ...
Over a recent two-decade span, the U.S. has made almost no progress in eliminating racial disparities in key health ...
An AMERICAN EXPERIENCE collection featuring ... was pulled from a bus for arguing with the driver. The local chief of police savagely beat him, leaving him unconscious and permanently blind.
After African Americans boycotted the Montgomery ... The city and state, however, insisted that bus drivers continue to enforce Jim Crow laws. A Federal District Court then ruled that segregation ...
The classic limousine is an endangered species, but having a driver may still make sense ...
And because the state was then 57% African American, the 1868 constitution guaranteed a democracy ... researchers find ‘Thank ...
There was Joshua McCray, 69, a public bus driver who, four years after catching COVID ... “There is a disconnect between policymakers and real people,” he said. The African Americans who make up most ...
Three years before Rosa Parks' bus boycott, Nigerian drummer Babatunde ... in 1957 "Baba sparked a deep sense of pride among African Americans by strongly promoting images of African culture ...
Unlike older cities, towns, and suburbs, with their mix of people of all ages, the new postwar suburbs were inhabited primarily by young families. There were few older people or even older children in ...
So here’s the bottom line: retreating from DEI initiatives isn’t just a retreat from progress, it’s also economically ...
One morning in late April, a small brick health clinic along the Thurgood Marshall Highway bustled with patients.