Word: bus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...very young when I had my first experience in sitting behind the curtain," he says. "I felt just as if a curtain had come down across my whole life. The insult of it I will never forget." On another occasion, he and his schoolteacher were riding a bus from Macon to Atlanta when the driver ordered them to give up their seats to white passengers. "When we didn't move right away, the driver started cursing us out and calling us black sons of bitches. I decided not to move at all, but my teacher pointed out that...
...named Rosa Parks boarded a Montgomery bus and took a seat. As the bus continued along its route, picking up more passengers, the Negroes aboard rose on the driver's orders to give their seats to white people. When the driver told Mrs. Parks to get up, she refused. "I don't really know why I wouldn't move," she said later. "There was no plot or plan at all. I was just tired from shopping. My feet hurt." She was arrested and fined...
...some reason, that small incident triggered the frustrations of Montgomery's Negroes, who for years had bent subserviently beneath the prejudices of the white community. Within hours, the Negroes were embarked upon a bus boycott that was more than 99% effective, almost ruined Montgomery's bus line. The boycott committee soon became the Montgomery Improvement Association, with Martin Luther King Jr. as president. His leadership was more inspirational than administrative; he is, as an observer says, "more at home with a conception than he is with the details of its application." King's home was bombed...
...fares would cost ten cents, Harmon said, and students would pay in advance so that the bus driver could collect tickets rather than money. A poll of 'Cliffies earlier this year showed that a dime was the highest fare likely to be attractive, Harmon added...
Bradford K. Perry '64, President of HSA, said that he did not expect revenues from the bus line "to do more than barely cover costs, if they do that." Calling the line "strictly a service for Radcliffe girls, and not a financial deal by the HSA," he said it would provide jobs for students by giving 'Cliffies the opportunity to sell tickets...