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Episodes tagged "Transportation": 1 through 7 of 7

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  1. Teenage School bus Drivers, Black and White, Crash on South Carolina Highway
    date January 20, 1953map Clarendon, South Carolinatags African-Americans, Desegregation, Transportation, Segregation, Supreme Court, Children, Public Schools, Black History, Black Schools, South Carolina, Buses

    “W.H. Ridgeway, the 16-year-old driver of the white bus, sobbed in his hospital bed and told his mother over and over how sorry he was the wreck had happened” The Columbia State, South Carolina’s largest newspaper, reported this pitiful scene on January 21st, 1953, under the front-page headline, “Clarendon School Bus Crash Kills 2”. The State ran no pictures of the crash, but the details...

  2. Excellent Progress on the New York Subway
    date September 27, 1902 to October 28, 1904map New York, New Yorktags Transportation, New York, Subway

      On September 27, 1902 the Scientific American highlighted the development of the first New York City subway. The monthly Scientific American magazine, which focused on scientific discoveries and technological innovations around the world, detailed the progress of the subway through the use of various diagrams and articles.  The New York Subway was well underway during the publication of the article...

  3. Eugene “Bull” Connor Writes Correspondence on the Race Question
    date June 6, 1923 to December 31, 1946map Jefferson, Alabamatags Segregation, Transportation, Race Relations, Civil Rights

    With racial tensions rising in Birmingham, there was only one thing to do: ensure the separation of the races. This was what Eugene “Bull” Connor, Birmingham’s Commissioner of Public Safety during the 1940s, saw as the only option to ensure public peace. This separation of the races included the segregation of Birmingham’s streetcars. In a letter dated June 29, 1944 to Mr. C. L. Harris of Birmingham’s...

  4. Soldier Resists Segregation on Birmingham Streetcar
    date June 6, 1923 to June 6, 1946map Jefferson, Alabamatags Segregation, Race Relations, Civil Rights, African-Americans, Transportation

    During World War II , whites and blacks had sacrificed for their country; yet, only the whites who returned found themselves recipients of respect. Around 9:40pm on June 6, 1943 a “negro” soldier boarded a streetcar in Birmingham, Alabama on the North Birmingham Line. Instead of moving to the back of the car, he chose to stand in the white section. White passengers began to complain and the conductor...

  5. Incident of Racial Tension Reported on Birmingham’s East Lake Line
    date June 6, 1923 to June 21, 1943map Jefferson, Alabamatags Civil Rights, African American, Race Relations, Transportation

    On a hot midafternoon on June 21, 1943, a streetcar filled with passengers eased along the East Lake Line in Birmingham, Alabama. When it reached its next stop no one got off, but one white man and two white women attempted to board the already packed car. The conductor, claiming there was standing room in the “negro” section, told some “negro” passengers who were standing near the entrance...

  6. Susie Clark’s arrival in California by train from Boston
    date 1890map LOS ANGELES, Californiatags Native Americans, Railroad, Transportation

    During the 1890s Susie Champney Clark left Boston on a Raymond & Whitcomb Co. organized railroad trip across the country to California, recording her observations and notes along the way.  Though this trip may have seemed impossible to make earlier in the century, as Ms. Clark said in the first chapter of her book The Round Trip from Hub to the Golden Gate, “California [was] much nearer Boston than...

  7. The Interurban Railroad of California
    date October 18, 1901map Santa Clara, Californiatags Urban-Life/Boosterism, Paul Shoup, Railroad, Transportation

    The Southern Pacific Railroad Company Traffic Department announced on October 16, 1901, that Paul Shoup would be replacing Thomas A. Graham as division freight and passenger agent with jurisdictions south of San Francisco, Oakland, and north of Santa Barbara, with his headquarters in San Jose. J.C Stubbs, Traffic Director; William Sproule, freight traffic manager and E.O McCormick, passenger traffic...