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Among the speakers were Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., who had led the 1955–1956 Montgomery bus boycott, Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth, and James Farmer. Outside, a mob of more than 3,000 white people attacked the black attendees, with a handful of the United States Marshals Service protecting the church from assault and fire bombs. With city and ...
More than 30 people were injured, including six policemen who were shot, and two civilians, including a pregnant teenager, were killed by stray gunfire. [6] 2 30+ July 31, 1966 Racial White residents attacked 550 civil rights protesters who marched into their neighborhood. [7] 0 54 August 5, 1966 Racial, housing
Carolina Coach banning "Jim Crow laws" in bus travel among the states, is a landmark in outlawing "Jim Crow" in bus travel. The Browder case was brought and won by noted civil rights attorney Fred Gray. December 20 – Federal marshals enforce the ruling to desegregate bus systems in Montgomery.
A boycott desegregated buses in Montgomery, Ala. On June 22, 1954, a bus driver in Columbia, S.C., punched Sarah Mae Flemming for sitting in the white section of his bus before she was forcibly ...
Police say the incident took place around 2:30 p.m. while the woman was riding a CTA bus near the 5100 block of South Maplewood Avenue. The group is accused of assaulting the woman and taking her ...
The police officers and firefighter were responding to reports of a truck fire in Arlington Heights, about 25 miles northwest of downtown Chicago, around 4 p.m. Friday and assessing the scene ...
In 1950, Greyhound Lines retained architect W.S. Arrasmith to build a new bus station in Montgomery, Alabama, to replace an earlier station on North Court Street. Incorporating a streamlined style and vertical "Greyhound" name in neon, it is an unassuming example of Greyhound bus stations in that time, derived from a standard plan and built for ...
The incident happened after first responders arrived on Derbyshire Avenue at around 4 p.m. in response to reports of a garbage truck on fire, per a release from the Arlington Heights Police ...