Welcome to montgomery, alabama, on American History tv. It is considered one of americas most historic cities for its role on the civil war and Civil Rights Movement. Today, it has a population of 205000 and is alabamas secondlargest city. With the help of our Cable Partners, over the next 90 thetes, hear the story of montgomery bus boycott and its impact on the city. Each day that the buses ran empty, the bus company lost about 3000 per day. About 1955. Ng three thousand dollars was the average yearly salary of most people in the area. It speaks to the amount of of the busestate because remember the bus fare was only . 10. Quite later, we will learn about an alabama governor who made a bid for the presidency. When people ask him what the takeaway from the 1958 campaign is, he says, i try to talk about progressive improvement and good and goodgood roads schools, known would listen. When i started to talk about segregation, everyone started to listen to me. But first, learn about court
When they got off the bus they were the mercy of this crowd who then proceeded to attack them even further. The deal that had been worked out with local Law Enforcement and the segregationists was evident 15 minutes they would have 15 minutes before Law Enforcement intervened. After about a 15 minute point a local Law Enforcement officer pulled his weapon and fired a shot. That is what stopped the attack. In the meantime the trailways bus arrived an hour later. They dont know until they arrived that the Greyhound Bus was already attacked. The interesting thing about the trailways bus, unlike the Greyhound Bus, several segregationists had gotten on the bus in atlanta. They were riding from atlanta. They had not only harassed the atlanta, the bus from but they had also beaten several of the freedom riders while on the bus. The trailways bus was able to continue on into birmingham for yet another mob formed and was waiting for that bus to arrive. While this was going on there were a group
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