Before Rosa Parks there was this lady.

[oneighty]

(Scared me to tears almost. Hee hee hee)

Just turned fifteen years old and I was making a solo bus journey from Buffalo N.Y. to Sheffield, Alabama. Somewhere in the south, maybe Tennessee the bus I transferred too was crowded. It was night time and dark in the bus. I found one empty seat at the rear of the bus.

As I sat my tender self down in the empty seat the kind black lady in that seat next to the window said; "You can't sit here white boy." As I stood for the next couple of hundred miles I thought a lot about that.

1949

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[NV Whino]

1. Good story.

Thanks for posting that.

[Suich]

2. I bet that's the only time the woman got to say that!

Thanks for sharing! :hi: