- Collection:
- Civil Rights
- Title:
- Shoals Transit Integrates Its Buses in April of 1956
- Contributor to Resource:
- Freeman, Lee
- Publisher:
- Newspapers.com
- Date of Original:
- 1956-05-01
1956-05-02
1956-05-03
1956-05-12
1956-11-15 - Subject:
- Civil rights--Alabama--Florence
- Location:
- United States, Alabama, Lauderdale County, Florence, 34.79981, -87.67725
- Medium:
- newspaper clippings
- Type:
- StillImage
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- 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."
Civil Rights - Metadata URL:
- https://shoalsblackhistory.omeka.net/items/show/1189
- Language:
- eng
- Additional Rights Information:
- Images are available for educational and research purposes. This image may not be reproduced for commercial purposes without the express written consent of the copyright holder. It is the responsibility of the interested party to identify the copyright holder and receive permission.
- Original Collection:
- Tri-Cities Daily
Birmingham (AL) News
Huntsville (AL) Times
Decatur (AL) Daily
Montgomery (AL) Advertiser
Talladega (AL) Daily News
Pittsburgh (PA) Courier - Contributing Institution:
- Shoals Black History
- Rights:
-
