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Posted by Kew Gardens Teleport on Fri Oct 21 19:49:02 2011, in response to Re: The B110 has a website, posted by RIPTA42HopeTunnel on Wed Nov 10 16:05:35 2010. 'The same was true in the south as well. For the most part, bus companies did not really care how passengers were seated (as all money is green). Greyhound operated non-segregated service in the north and segregated service in the south only because that was what the "customers want[ed] . . . in place." 'So you're saying southern Blacks preferred the back of the bus? :O Actually, a lot of them did. Not all southern blacks were heroes, and a large number of them preferred not to have their names printed in newspapers, get fired, have their loans called in, etc: if sitting in a different seat on a bus was what it took to achieve that, they would do it out of choice. Yes, it sucked as a system, and one cannot really forgive the incompetence of President Grant or the cravenness of President Hayes, but for ordinary African Americans at the time, rocking the boat was not the road to personal gain. |
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