Word: bus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...joined the N.A.A.C.P. He approached civil rights with the same intensity as he did the Bible. So it was not surprising that he got the first call for help after Mrs. Rosa Parks, a Negro seamstress, refused to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery bus in 1955, thereby launching the most protracted-and successful-nonviolent protest in American history...
...drinking. It meant automatic boot. And there was almost always some of it around especially among the big, non-team-captain type athletes. People would get caught passed out in their rooms over Spring Weekend. A few would get kicked out each year. Dozens would come in on the bus every Saturday to tank up in the rooms of Harvard freshmen. Your usual scene...
...Incredible as it may seem, the demands of the Afro-American Student Union at Northwestern University included a request for segregated housing, not, as you report, for desegregated housing. Montgomery, Ala., make room for the Negroes at the back of the bus...
...bus driver was murdered in a holdup Friday, touching off a short strike. Drivers first demanded a policeman on every bus, now may settle for curtailment of all service after 10 p.m. Bus robberies are double last year's pace...
Married. Zoe Caldwell, 34, Australian actress, whose tempestuous performance in Broadway's current The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie earned her this year's Tony Award; and Robert Whitehead, 52, producer of the show (and of such stage hits as The Member of the Wedding, Bus Stop); she for the first time, he for the second; in Mechanicsville...