Decision of the United States Supreme Court batting segregation in public transportation. My street mate on that Greyhound Bus you must understand in 1961 black people and white people could be seated together. When you get out of washington to travel to virginia to North Carolina, alabama, mississippi, wewere on our way to new orleans. So we didnt have any problems for the most part until we got to rockville. And a little place in charlotte North Carolina, it was a sizable city, a young africanamerican man attempted to get a shoeshine in a socalled white barbershop that was in a socalled white waiting room. He was arrested and taken to jail. The next day the jury dismissed the charges against him but my seatmate and two of us arrived at the Greyhound Bus station in South Carolina and a group of white men met us in the doorway and started beating us and left us lying in a pool of blood and the local officials came up and wanted to know whether we wanted to press charges andwe said no ,
A quarter of iranians may have been infected with corona virus we look at whether the worlds facing a far Bigger Health crisis than 1st thought. We cannot. Weak. And the tributes keep pouring in for the civil rights icon john lewis whos passed away the white house says it will fire the American Flag at half staff in his own. So its starting in libya where a team from the International Criminal court is now on the ground tasked with investigating a warlord of a possible war crimes investigators from the i. C. C. Of arrived in the capital to look into acts committed by forces loyal to kind of a half that is expected to include a visit to the mass graves found in tarahumara last month the 3 person team will also investigate booby traps left behind during a retreat by have to fighters in residential areas south of tripoli the i. C. C. Says its received credible information regarding 11 mass graves containing men women and even children without the wads following the details of this investi
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Island, emeryville, even into berkeley. So a situation we will continue to monitor throughout the evening. Not only on air but also at abc7news. Com. So good evening and thank you for joining us. For the most part, it has been the big cities where weve seen a lot of these protests since last months death of george floyd. It was danvilles turn in what was billed as a wakeup march. Abc7 News Reporter cornell bernard was there and spoke to the organizer. Cornell . Reporter organizers never dreamed they would be leading a protest march in their home wnapne a edsof pplee i support. Several hundred people on the move through the streets of down danville in support of a growing movement. Because black lives matter. Reporter this peaceful march organized we came together and. I think it is time for danville to really wake up. Reporter aqua is 25 years o. She was so moved by the death of george floyd, she knew she had to bring a message to her home town. I never thought this would be my reality