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Just after 3:30 p.m., [1] Dykes boarded a Dale County school bus that was stopped in Midland City and told the driver that he wanted to take two children, six and eight years old, both boys, [4] from the bus. The school bus driver, 66-year-old Charles Albert Poland, Jr., refused to let him take the children and challenged Dykes to shoot him. [4]
Claudette Colvin (born Claudette Austin; September 5, 1939) [1] [2] is an American pioneer of the 1950s civil rights movement and retired nurse aide.On March 2, 1955, she was arrested at the age of 15 in Montgomery, Alabama, for refusing to give up her seat to a white woman on a crowded, segregated bus.
A school bus crash occurring on September 21, 1989, in Alton, Texas, in the Rio Grande Valley region, resulted in the deaths of 21 junior and senior high school students by drowning or causes related to being asphyxiated. A bottling truck collided with the school bus, causing the bus to enter a caliche pit filled with water. The driver of the ...
During the 2019-2020 school year, many schools closed after the COVID-19 pandemic hit, leaving school bus drivers without work and adequate pay. Many found other employment by the time schools opened.
Victoria Limon stood next to the idling school bus after three hours of chaperoning a long-awaited field trip. She pulled her phone from her pocket at 1:36 p.m. and texted her co-workers.
"Forgiveness only hurts the person that is unforgiving," she said. "It doesn't hurt the other person and I didn't want to open that door for the enemy to come in and have bitterness -- no, I don't ...
Blake continued working at the bus company until he retired in 1974. He did not like to say much to the media or his family about the Parks matter, such as in 1989 when he was approached by a reporter of the The Washington Post and yelled about wanting to close the book on the matter because of the "lies" printed about him while alleging that black people had called his house for weeks after ...
The letter details several frustrations the school district has had with NRT, including the transportation provider's failure to provide a written plan on how it planned to recruit more bus drivers.