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One of the more interesting in this article was the lengths that the whites went to even when blacks were boycotting the busses. For example, it says the policemen would give white people tickets for giving blacks rides to and from work because they would not take the busses. It seems like they were turning on their own race and I am incredibly suprised that they would ticket whites for this. In addition, it is completely illegal, and there is no law about who you can give rides to. These white women would not quit giving rides because they needed these women to work on time and the best way for that was to help them out and give them rides. This seems like one of the few times in history where black and white women bonded together, and white women were indirectly helping the civil rights cause. -afrisk | One of the more interesting in this article was the lengths that the whites went to even when blacks were boycotting the busses. For example, it says the policemen would give white people tickets for giving blacks rides to and from work because they would not take the busses. It seems like they were turning on their own race and I am incredibly suprised that they would ticket whites for this. In addition, it is completely illegal, and there is no law about who you can give rides to. These white women would not quit giving rides because they needed these women to work on time and the best way for that was to help them out and give them rides. This seems like one of the few times in history where black and white women bonded together, and white women were indirectly helping the civil rights cause. -afrisk | ||
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| + | I was a little surprised to hear that it wasn't the boycott that desegregated the Alabama bus system, but the Supreme Court Decision. Furr's writing almost makes it seem that the boycott and the court decision were parallel events. I know that the boycott put an economic hardship on the bus system, but now I realize that may have not been the only goal. I am sure public attention was just as important. Do you think that more people were willing to help the boycott knowing that there was a case going to the supreme court? Do you think the boycott helped the judicial case? - J Rowley | ||
== Mirta Vidal Reports on the Rising Consciousness of the Chicana About Her Special Oppression, 1971 == | == Mirta Vidal Reports on the Rising Consciousness of the Chicana About Her Special Oppression, 1971 == | ||
