- Collection:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Title:
- Bus desegregation in Atlanta
- Creator:
- Hatfield, Edward A.
- Date of Original:
- 2007-10-05
- Subject:
- Atlanta (Ga.). Police Department
Police chiefs--Georgia--Atlanta
Mayors--Georgia--Atlanta
Governors--Georgia
Buses--Georgia--Atlanta
Bus drivers--Georgia--Atlanta
Bus lines--Georgia--Atlanta
Bus lines--Ridership--Georgia--Atlanta
Bus terminals--Georgia--Atlanta
Segregation in transportation--Georgia--Atlanta
Discrimination in public accommodations--Georgia--Atlanta
Segregation--Georgia--Atlanta
Boycotts--Alabama--Montgomery
Civil rights--Georgia--Atlanta
African Americans--Civil rights--Georgia--Atlanta
Violence--Georgia--Atlanta
Police power--Georgia--Atlanta
Police-Community relations--Georgia--Atlanta
Police vehicles--Georgia--Atlanta
Arrest--Georgia--Atlanta
Civil disobedience--Georgia--Atlanta
Civil rights workers--Georgia--Atlanta
African American civil rights workers--Georgia--Atlanta
Civil rights movements--Georgia--Atlanta
Political activists--Georgia--Atlanta
African American political activists--Georgia--Atlanta
Clergy--Georgia--Atlanta
African American clergy--Georgia--Atlanta
Religious leaders--Georgia--Atlanta
African American religious leaders--Georgia--Atlanta
Wheat Street Baptist Church (Atlanta, Ga.)
Government, Resistance to--Georgia--Atlanta
Atlanta Transit Company
United States. District Court (Georgia : Northern District : Atlanta Division) - People:
- Borders, William Holmes, 1905-1993
Hartsfield, William Berry
Griffin, Marvin, 1907-1982
Jenkins, Herbert T. - Location:
- United States, Alabama, Montgomery County, 32.22026, -86.20761
United States, Alabama, Montgomery County, Montgomery, 32.36681, -86.29997
United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798 - Medium:
- articles
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- text/html
- Description:
- Encyclopedia article about the process and activity which led to bus desegregation in Atlanta, Georgia. In January 1957, following the successful bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama (1955-56), a group of black ministers launched the "Love, Law, and Liberation" movement to desegregate Atlanta's city buses. Under the leadership of the Reverend William Holmes Borders, the ministers staged a violation of the state law requiring segregation on common carriers, thereby securing the grounds for a legal challenge to Georgia's Jim Crow system. Two years later, in January 1959, a federal district court ruled in favor of the ministers, ending more than six decades of segregation on Atlanta's city buses.
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- https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/bus-desegregation-in-atlanta/
- Language:
- eng
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