Hatfield, Edward A
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Encyclopedia article about the process and activity which led to bus desegregation in Atlanta, Georgia. In January 1957, following the successful bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama (1955-56), a group of black ministers launched the "Love, Law, and Liberation" movement to desegregate Atlanta's city buses. Under the leadership of the Reverend William Holmes Borders, the ministers staged a violation of the state law requiring segregation on common carriers, thereby securing the grounds for a legal challenge to Georgia's Jim Crow system. Two years later, in January 1959, a federal district court ruled in favor of the ministers, ending more than six decades of segregation on Atlanta's city buses.The Civil Rights Digital Library received support from a National Leadership Grant for Libraries awarded to the University of Georgia by the Institute of Museum and Library Services for the aggregation and enhancement of partner metadata.
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Digital Library of GeorgiaKeywords
- African American Civil Rights Workers
- African American Clergy
- African American Political Activists
- African American Religious Leaders
- African Americans
- Alabama
- Arrest
- Atlanta
- Atlanta (Ga.). Police Department
- Atlanta Transit Company
- Borders, William Holmes, 1905
- Boycotts
- Bus Drivers
- Bus Lines
- Bus Terminals
- Buses
- Civil Disobedience
- Civil Rights
- Civil Rights Movements
- Civil Rights Workers
- Clergy
- Discrimination
- Discrimination In Public Accommodations
- Georgia
- Government
- Government, Resistance To
- Governors
- Griffin, Marvin, 1907 1982
- Hartsfield, William Berry
- Jenkins, Herbert T
- Mayors
- Montgomery
- Police Chiefs
- Police Community Relations
- Police Power
- Police Vehicles
- Political Activists
- Religious Leaders
- Ridership
- Segregation
- Segregation In Transportation
- United States
- United States. District Court (Georgia : Northern District : Atlanta Division)
- Violence
- Wheat Street Baptist Church (Atlanta, Ga.)