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1.
Daybreak of Freedom: The Montgomery Bus Boycott
Contributors:
Publisher:
University of North Carolina Press 1997
Subjects:
Segregation In Transportation--Alabama--Montgomery--History--20th Century--Sources
African Americans--Civil Rights--Alabama--Montgomery--History--20th Century--Sources
Montgomery (Ala.)--Race Relations--Sources
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...law, however, the official of said bus lines did not make publicstatement...city segregation law with reference to bus travel, andWHEREAS, said citizens of Montgomery...the busses owned and operatedby said bus company in spite of the fact that they...
2.
Moving Lives: Twentieth-Century Women's Travel Writing
Contributors:
Publisher:
University of Minnesota Press 2001
Subjects:
Travelers' Writings--History and Criticism
Women Travelers--History--20th Century
Travel Writing--History--20th Century
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...of the meanings of Greyhound travel in hercountry of birth: [Buses and bus depots scare the wits out of...cultural imaginary of America, bus travel is the last resort of thedown...cases](20). The Greyhound bus and the public stations servicing...
3.
German Travel Cultures
Contributors:
Publisher:
Berg 2000
Subjects:
Travel--Guidebooks--Publishing--Germany--History
Travel Writing--History
Tourism--Germany--History
Germany--Guidebooks--History
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...for mostGerman cities. Auto travel in Germany was generally less...mountains, where the Bissing travel firmof Braunschweig hawked its...well as thoselimited to rail travel, were similarly disadvantaged...solution was precisely thekind of bus tour the Bissing company sold...
5.
The School Bus Law: A Case Study in Education, Religion, and Politics
Contributors:
Publisher:
Wesleyan University Press 1960
Subjects:
School Children--Connecticut--Transportation
Church And State--Connecticut
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...permissive legislation for townsto decide whether to provide bus service and health services to non­profit private school...a child attending aschool in his own town should not have to travel on foot on a high­way without sidewalks and be in peril...
6.
On the Bus with Rosa Parks: Poems
Contributors:
Publisher:
W. W. Norton 1999
Subjects:
African American Women Civil Rights Workers--Poetry
Civil Rights Movements--Poetry
African American Women--Poetry
African Americans--Poetry
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...of murmuringsequins. She waited. She knew how to abide,to sit in cool contemplation of the expected.She had learned to travel a crowdbearing a smile we weren't sure we could bearto receive, it was so calm a suturing.Scrolling earthward, buffed...
7.
The Turning Tide: From the Desegregation of the Armed Forces to the Montgomery Bus Boycott (1948-1956)
Contributors:
Publisher:
Chelsea House 1995
Subjects:
African Americans--History--1877-1964
African Americans--Civil Rights
Civil Rights Movements--United States--History--20th Century
United States--Race Relations
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...CorporationCounsel of the District, declaring that Thompson'shad violated the city's civil rights laws. The case wasto travel slowly from the Washington, D.C., justicesystem to the U.S. Supreme Court, where it wouldhelp decide the fate of a...
8.
Travel Culture: Essays on What Makes Us Go
Contributors:
Publisher:
Praeger 1998
Subjects:
Travel--Philosophy
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...traveler whospurns the tour bus to wander at length and casually...especially in a new field suchas travel culture, is Montanan Ruth Carrington...histories of the true makers of the travel culture.Robert D. Kaplan, one of the best political travel writers (Balkan Ghosts...
9.
Elizabeth Bishop: The Art of Travel
Contributors:
Publisher:
University Press of Colorado 2003
Subjects:
Bishop, Elizabeth, 1911-1979--Criticism and Interpretation
Women and Literature--United States--History--20th Century
Bishop, Elizabeth, 1911-1979--Political and Social Views
Travelers in Literature
Travel in Literature
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...there.“Because her questions of travel have provided me with hard ways of thinkU...might find in them.And so she journeys by bus to Petrópolis, then by taxi, local...wasweeping for joy.”Fortuny's travel was a kind of research, perhaps no more...
10.
Richard Wright's Travel Writings: New Reflections
Contributors:
Publisher:
University Press of Mississippi 2001
Subjects:
Wright, Richard, 1908-1960
Travelers' Writings, American--History and Criticism
African Americans--Foreign Countries--History
Travel Writing--History--20th Century
Americans--Foreign Countries--History
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...Black Power. Through the dis­cursive economy of the travel narrative, Wright's text brings the “stranger”...betweenAfrica and black America comes up often in Black Power. In the bus going fromTakoradi to Accra, the landscape with its “rich...
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