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nxylas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-18-10 11:19 AM
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Bus Riders Fight for Their Right to Service, 55 Years After Montgomery
Fifty-five years to the month after the start of the Montgomery bus boycott, people of color can sit wherever they want on the bus-when and if one arrives. Bus operators all over the country are slashing routes in response to deepening deficits. This loss of service denies people who depend on transit their civil rights in deep, daily, grinding, unmistakable ways.


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