Shoals Transit Integrates Its Buses in April of 1956

Shoals Transit Integrates Its Buses in April of 1956

A series of articles from May and November of 1956 reporting on the April 29, 1956 integration of its buses by Shoals Transit in response to the recent US Supreme Court ruling outlawing the segregation of buses. Shoals Transit, headquartered in Sheffield, in Colbert County, which was owned by Ame...

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Published: Project Say Something: The Shoals Black History Collection
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Photographs, documents, and clippings
Online Access:https://shoalsblackhistory.omeka.net/items/show/1189
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collection Civil Rights Collection
building Project Say Something: The Shoals Black History Collection
publisher Project Say Something: The Shoals Black History Collection
topic Photographs, documents, and clippings
spellingShingle Photographs, documents, and clippings
Shoals Transit Integrates Its Buses in April of 1956
fulltopic Photographs, documents, and clippings
Civil Rights
description A series of articles from May and November of 1956 reporting on the April 29, 1956 integration of its buses by Shoals Transit in response to the recent US Supreme Court ruling outlawing the segregation of buses. Shoals Transit, headquartered in Sheffield, in Colbert County, which was owned by American Transit Lines, Inc. of St. Louis, MO, announced that it would no longer enforce segregation rules on its buses, defending the action as the only one it could take as long as federal law outlawed segregation while AL state law continued to allow it. With an estimated 55,000 residents in the Shoals, one-fifth of those residents were African-American and according to company official Tom Bolen, of Shoals Transit Lines' 60,000 passengers, one-third were African-American. According to Bolen there had been no problems connected with the company's decision to integrate, and none were expected, "unless it is fomented from the outside."
title Shoals Transit Integrates Its Buses in April of 1956
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spelling Shoals Transit Integrates Its Buses in April of 1956Civil RightsA series of articles from May and November of 1956 reporting on the April 29, 1956 integration of its buses by Shoals Transit in response to the recent US Supreme Court ruling outlawing the segregation of buses. Shoals Transit, headquartered in Sheffield, in Colbert County, which was owned by American Transit Lines, Inc. of St. Louis, MO, announced that it would no longer enforce segregation rules on its buses, defending the action as the only one it could take as long as federal law outlawed segregation while AL state law continued to allow it. With an estimated 55,000 residents in the Shoals, one-fifth of those residents were African-American and according to company official Tom Bolen, of Shoals Transit Lines' 60,000 passengers, one-third were African-American. According to Bolen there had been no problems connected with the company's decision to integrate, and none were expected, "unless it is fomented from the outside." Microfilm (1, 7)Newspapers.com (2-6; 8)Lee Freeman1956-05-011956-05-011956-05-011956-05-011956-05-021956-05-031956-05-12 1956-11-15Still 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