I was researching the Baton Rouge Bus Boycott and I found this NPR piece about it, so the URL for the story is http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1304163.
This radio piece is from 2003, when the city of Baton Rouge was celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Baton Rouge Bus Boycott, which historians believe was the first time African- Americans organized to challenge segregation. In 1953, eigthty percent of bus riders were African- American yet they were still forced to sit in the back of the bus, so a lot of times the back of the bus would be full and African-American riders were forced to stand when the front of the bus was empty.
This radio piece is from 2003, when the city of Baton Rouge was celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Baton Rouge Bus Boycott, which historians believe was the first time African- Americans organized to challenge segregation. In 1953, eigthty percent of bus riders were African- American yet they were still forced to sit in the back of the bus, so a lot of times the back of the bus would be full and African-American riders were forced to stand when the front of the bus was empty.
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