Greyhound Lines: Annotated Bibliography

In 1961 the Freedom Riders changed the civil rights movement by eliminating public segregation through uniting the black community. There were three groups involved with aiding the Freedom Rides come to their goal. Defeating the civil rights movement would not have been accomplished without the help of these three groups. A principle reason why there was so much racism is because of the Jim Crow Laws. On December 5th 1960, one of the Jim Crow Laws became illegal. Racial segregation in public transportation was now illegal, therefore the Freedom Riders wanted to determine whether this law was being enforced. On May 14th African-American's decided to sit wherever they chose to on the bus. Many white supremacists acted upon this and started throwing

The death Eugene Williams, one of the majors point of the Chicago Race Riots of 1919, it was one of the things that actually started to make the majority of African-Americans act. Eugene was hit and killed by a thrown rock by a white male on the breakwater, even after his identity was established he wasn’t arrested. Even to make matters worse one of the males accompanying him was arrested instead in the chaos. Of course, many people fought but the majority of the race moved out of the south, the southern states passed new constitutions and laws that dehumanized African-Americans and made them into slaves, they even had to flee from the Ku Klux Klan. This led to The Great Migration, which changed Chicago politically and culturally.

In May 1961, a diverse group of people set out to change the segregation throughout the United States, especially in the South, where segregation was at its highest peak. These diverse people were known as the Freedom Riders. Their purpose and there goals were to bring the idea and movement of the group to the South, in the hopes that it’ll stop the raging war between races in those Southern states. The Freedom Riders also hoped to grab political attention, from their current President at the time, John F Kennedy. They wanted his attention because at the time he was highly focused on world problems such as the Cold War. To get the right attention, the riders deliberately broke segregation laws in the South. These laws broke the rights of the

An innovation in public transport was the cable car, first introduced to the United States in 1868 in New York City. Another innovation that revolutionized public transport was the streetcar which is also known the tram or the trolley. Streetcar system were built in most of the major cities by the eighteen-eighties. They allowed people who lived in suburban areas to commute into the city for work. An invention by the 1890s were the first motor buses. There were also elevated trains and underground railways by that time. The elevated train system established in chicago was known as the “L” in 1895; it was the first rapid transit system in the United States. Boston, Massachusetts had the first public underground rail tunnel and subway system opened in America. They were built to get street cars off of crowded streets. Cities were also coming up with new techniques of road and bridge building at the same time. Without the creation and spread of these transportational innovations, the United States of America would have progressed differently. Workers were now able to travel to business centers more efficiently and faster paced as well. Businesses are able to expand even more, because they can now hire people from a larger area. This increases the amount and quality of workers that

On May 11, 1894 a widespread strike lead by railroad workers brought business to a complete cessation; only willing to discontinue until the federal government took unprecedented action to end the strike. The Pullman Strike began “as a peaceful labor protest against a single Chicago employer (54)”, and later ended up “into a national labor boycott of more than twenty railroads and then into a violent confrontation between the federal government, the railroad companies, and American workers (55.)” With the “mix of employer resistance, government aggression, worker bitterness, and general economic desperation (54)”, the Pullman Strike presented questions towards the “rights of employers and workers in an industrialized democracy and about the role

In 1864 Congress approved the Northern Pacific Railway to be built. The NPR is the first transcontinental railroad in the northern part of the country. It is 8,316 miles long, beginning in Minnesota and ending in Washington state, with many branches going off the main line. When congress approved it they also supplied nearly 40million acres of land grants to build the railroad on. Construction didn 't go underway until 1870, and the rail road was finally christened to open on Sept. 8 1888.

After its 1869 debut, the Central Pacific’s Altamont Pass route provided the shortest all-land connection from Sacramento to the Bay Area. It remained, nonetheless, a long detour compared with a direct-line route between the two points. From the start, the Central Pacific’s principals recognized its faults and sought alternatives.

The forefathers of the United States built this country on the ideals of freedom and equality for all people. Unfortunately, the fight for equality and freedom did not end with the revolutionary war. The fight has continued throughout the decades. Many of these issues were fought in the courtroom. Auburn University created an online Alabama Encyclopedia, there, the following quote stated, “Scottsboro became an international cause celebre that dramatically encapsulated the American south troubled post reconstruction history of legal and extralegal racial violence, the social and political upheaval of the great depression, and the lingering cultural divide between the north and south.” (Scottsboro trials). The Fourteenth amendment clearly states

The African-American Civil Rights Movement was very influential in its time; and more specifically, the Freedom Rides that took place were the epitome of the movement that brought down the racial barriers of segregation. This paper specifically focuses on the precursor events to the Freedom Rides, the major events that took place during the rides, and how the effects of the rides shaped history and redefined civil rights in modern-day America. Leading up to the Freedom Rides, the Supreme Court issued two rulings that denounced Plessy v. Ferguson, which were Irene Morgan v. The Commonwealth of Virginia and Boynton v. Virginia. These rulings mandated a halt to the segregation on public buses and declared it to be unconstitutional. The main

The song, Tangled Up in Blue by Bob Dylan and The Road Goes on Forever by Robert Earl Keen, both show how the two men experienced the acrimony of love. Love appears to become the core fundamental goal in both of the songs. Frequently, people underestimate the power of love and the things people are willing to do for love. Love without risk, even worse, there is no love without cost or sorrow, misery, and pain. Love brings agony, yet, people pursue it or fall into it. Both songs illustration how the two men have faced with grief and pain of losing a loved one. Nonetheless, The Road Goes on Forever, had a pernicious ending, while Tangled Up in Blue did not.

Welcome to what once was Newark New Jersey! Today the city of Santabellum is celebrating it’s 424th birthday, and finally it’s renaming ceremony. Newark was established on the 31st of October, 1693. It is in the Northern part of New Jersey. Just North of the city of Elizabeth. In the year 2017 Newark had 281 ,764 people. Currently Newark’s population is 756,314. About 310,088 of those people are over 40. The city of Newark was majorly struggling with getting senior citizens from place to place. As well as pollution and lack of healthcare for all classes. This brought on a major drop in population as well as local economy.The leaders of soon to be Santabellum made the decision to renovate the entire city of Newark! Now we have the beautiful city you see before you.

This is Screaming Horse of the Sioux tribe writing for the Sioux Smoke Signal. Today we are talking about how the Transcontinental Railroad affected our Native American way of life.

Jim Lehrer, bus enthusiast, news reporter and editor, and television anchor, has lots of memorable stories in his autobiography. From his time as a reporter, to the Kennedy assassination, to his heart attack, to defining and refining national television. However, the last major story in his autobiography, and likely the biggest, gives the book it's title: A Bus of My Own. Mr. Lehrer describes how the “Voice of Buses Past” had come, to tell him to go buy a bus, and that's just what he did.

“Where public transportation goes, the community grows” Public transit benefits riders and non-riders economically (Jerpi, n.d.), environmentally and physically (American Public Transportation Association, n.d.). Public transportation has been considered as one of the factors that determines the quality of the city by some people. Moreover, San Francisco ranked the top three city has the highest public transit ridership in 2007 (Christie, 2007).Then, how about college students living in a city with a high public transit ridership? Are they also a part of the ridership population? Do they use the car more than public transit? How about gender? Does gender really matter? Caren Levy, a lecturer of the University of London, stated that the gender affects the use of public transit, and men are using the public transit more than

Bus Éireann is an Irish bus and coach operator providing services throughout Ireland (except Dublin city) and Northern Ireland. The company’s primary heart is Busaras (Central Bus Station is located in Store Street, Central Dublin).