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Shoals Transit Integrates Its Buses in April of 1956
A series of articles from May and November of 1956 reporting on the April 29, 1956 integration of its buses by Shoals Transit in response to the recent US Supreme Court ruling outlawing the segregation of buses.
Shoals Transit, headquartered in…
Appalling
A Thursday, May 3, 1956 Colbert County Reporter (Tuscumbia, AL) reprint of a Brewton Standard editorial critical of the Supreme Court's ruling that segregation of buses was unconstitutional.
No stories on Shoals Transit's decision to integrate in…
Nothing to be Proud Of
A Thursday, August 14, 1958 Florence Herald editorial on the recent fatal beating of an African-American prisoner in Water Valley, Mississippi by the county sheriff and and his subsequent acquittal by a white jury.
Founded in 1886 as the Florence…
A Pointless and Stupid Act
A Thursday, October 9, 1958 Florence Herald editorial on the recent dynamiting of a school in Clinton, Tennessee in which 11 Black children were students along with 850 white children, an act the Herald called "pointless and stupid," and which it…
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