Word: bus
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WATCH OUT, Harvard. The City Councilor who once threatened to turn The Yard into a bus station, the very same man who had The Square renamed for Christopher Columbus, is back in charge...
Also in Hebron, demonstrators smashed the window of an Israeli passenger bus, but no one was hurt, Israel radio said...
...thought there would have been a large snowball fight or something," said Dan Alvarado '89, who was driving a shuttle bus during the blackout. Instead, Alvarado said, the Quad was "very quiet. I wonder what they were doing...
...years since the December day in 1955 when Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus to a white man, King's moral example and leadership had begun the transformation of the South, and of America, winning for blacks the human rights that even a Civil War a century earlier had not bestowed. The civil rights movement from Montgomery to Memphis was an American epic, with a thousand evocations of place and name: the lunch counters of Greensboro in 1960; the "Freedom Riders" of 1961; SNCC; CORE; the March on Washington; James Meredith; Medgar Evers; Bull...
...grown and in many ways prospered, and yet the black underclass has hardened into a cruel permanence. Says Charles Stith, pastor of Boston's Union United Methodist Church and a highly regarded black activist: "Martin Luther King fought for our rights to ride in the front of the bus. But folks still can't afford to ride the front of the airplane. This isn't a civil rights issue. We've dealt with that. The crisis now is economic...