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To: heterosupremacist

My dad was driving a Greyhound bus from about 1940-1946. He drove mostly from Springfield MO to Tulsa, OK. Jim Crow was in full flower. He refused to enforce it.

In the early 60s before the Civil Rights Act, he forced the integration of the Houston Bus Terminal and the adjacent restaurant of which he was manager. He was suspended w/o pay by Greyhound who told him he could have a job anywhere north of the Mason/Dixon line. We stayed in Houston another year so my brother could graduate from HS.


5 posted on 12/01/2017 10:13:01 AM PST by Mercat
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To: Mercat

#5 Mercat ~

Your dad acted heroically, you should be proud!


8 posted on 12/01/2017 10:16:01 AM PST by heterosupremacist (Domine Iesu Christe, Filius Dei, miserere me peccatorem!)
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To: Mercat

And he improved race relations to the modern day utopia, right?


18 posted on 12/01/2017 11:32:45 AM PST by Uncle Sam 911
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