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...with whites on integrated buses for the first time in history. They won this right by court order. But their presence is accepted, however reluctantly, by the majority of Montgomery's white citizens because of Martin King and the way he conducted a year-long boycott of the transit system. In terms of concrete victories, this makes King a poor second to the brigade of lawyers who won the big case before the Supreme Court in 1954, and who are now fighting their way from court to court, writ to writ, seeking to build the legal framework for desegregation...
Judge DeVane, at that moment, was about as deep in litigation as he could get. Three days before, Tallahassee Negroes broke their own seven-month bus boycott and began a concerted ride-the-bus on a first-come, first-served-basis campaign. Cities Transit Inc. did not object (Negroes made up 60% of its passengers before the boycott). Tallahassee's city commission objected furiously, suspended the company's franchise for not enforcing segregation. The company responded with a plea for an injunction preventing interference with its operations until the court decided whether Florida's bus-segregation...
...TRANSIT SYSTEM, successor to Capital Transit Co., Washington's long-limping bus and streetcar system, is finally getting on the track under new management after being milked of millions by Financier Louis Wolfson (TIME, June 25). Company changed net loss of $4,836 in September to $92,986 profit in October, now is enjoying first big passenger upswing since...
...Best Defense. In Cleveland, on the day he was supposed to testify at his trial on charges of robbing a grocery, Robert E. Crawford was arrested, charged with stealing three tons of scrap metal from a transit-system yard...
...discrimination against transit, through the canal...