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Title: Anti-Segregationists Ride Bus
Date Created and/or Issued: 1956-12-26T08:00:00Z
Publication Information: Chapman University Digital Commons
Contributing Institution: Chapman University, Frank Mt. Pleasant Library of Special Collections and Archives
Collection: UPI - The African American Experience 1930-1980
Rights Information: copyrighted
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Description: Birmingham, Ala.: The Reverend F. L. Shuttlesworth, Negro intergration leader whose home was blown up December 25th, sits in the front section of a Birmingham bus December 26th next to an unidentified woman after a mass meeting in which some 200 Negroes signed a non-violence pledge. Other Negroes, led by Shuttlesworth, boarded the bus and sat with white passengers without incident. Earlier, the Mayor had said anyone who violates city segregation laws would be arrested.
Type: image
Format: image/jpeg
Identifier: https://digitalcommons.chapman.edu/upi_african_american/96
Subject: African Americans
History
United States
Prejudice
Desegregation
Civil rights movement
Black Panthers
African American Studies
United States History
Source: UPI - The African American Experience 1930-1980

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