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 ,
Transportation. My seatmate on the Greyhound Bus from washington d. C. , you must understand and 1961, black people in white people couldnt be seated together. Not a Single Person engaged in violence against us. That was my first arrest. And that day when i was arrested, i felt so free, i felt liberated. I felt like i had crossed over. Because growing up in rural alabama, i asked my mother and my father, my grandparents and my great grand parents about segregation and Racial Discrimination, about those signs, white men, colored men, white women, colored women, and i said, why. Thats the way it is. Dont get in the way. Dont get in trouble. But dr. King and rosa parks inspired me to get in trouble. So by sitting in, we were arrested, and we went to jail. 89 of us were arrested on that day. Host did you pay a fine . Were you in jail for a while . Guest we were in jail for a few hours. Matter of fact, the local School Officials came down and bailed us out. That was my first arrest. That wa
Evenyearsold being in buffalo new york. It was my first time in that elevator, my first time seeing an escalator and it was so different and it had an impact on me because some people working together, living together. Host why did you make that trip . Guest i went there to spend part of the summer with another brother of my mother and some of my First Cousins. Host and other date in your history, september 2, 1986 democratic primary. Guest that was the reduction day in atlanta in the fifth Congressional District of georgia. It was a very difficult race with a closed and the differing mind by the name of julian bond who we had worked together in the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee with a wonderful, wonderful friend. He served in the state house, the state senate, to come to congress and i wanted to come to congress, and it was a race that i never wanted to repeat like that. Host and you won . Guest i did prevail. And some people thought they didnt have a chance and didnt have
Richard Greenleaf, Jr. passed away. This is the full obituary where you can share condolences and memories. Published in the Gloucester Times on 2024-05-20.