Word: bus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...turnout was higher than the 20,000 anticipated, although the refusal of New York City bus drivers to bring demonstrators to Washington stranded about a thousand demonstrators in New York. Washington police estimated that 20,000 to 25,000 were on the scene; march coordinator Sanford Gottlieb thought it was more like...
...which struck me as superficial, omitted mention of the fact that the telephones were working. No doubt you are aware that telephones are powered by electricity-and Mother Bell was prepared. Similar efforts were made successfully by the radio stations. Other public utilities were found sadly wanting, including the bus system and the fraternity of New York taxi drivers, who were either unwilling to take fares or overcharged them; they deserve public contempt...
...court refused to review an 82-day rap for disorderly conduct. Shuttlesworth got that one during his 1958 effort to desegregate Birmingham buses. His crime: not moving to the rear of a bus...
...Shuttlesworth sought a writ of habeas corpus in the bus case, won a Supreme Court order that finally led to the voiding of his 1958 conviction...
Service had to be shut own on a long section of track in order to "re-rail" the car, and a bus service was quickly established between Harvard and Kendall Squares...