![]() We energetic schoolkids thoughtlessly piled into those seats while African American adults, young or old, who had already finished their workday, moved to stand at the back of the bus. The Birmingham city bus that I rode back and forth to school that very day had those notorious movable WHITE/COLORED signs on the seat backs, and I clearly recall bus drivers getting out of their seats to move those signs to open up seats for us students as we climbed aboard to ride home. In many ways that time seems so long ago, an ancient time to the grandchildren of those who lived through it, actually or vicariously through the television news and newspaper reports that flooded the nation's consciousness. ![]() ![]() It has been 52 years today since the Montgomery bus boycott began on a chilly December dawn as, one by one, city buses rolled by usually crowded stops, now empty of their African American riders. ![]()
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