Monday, March 21, 2011

Worcy Crawford’s Buses Drove Civil Rights Movement


No one talks much about Worcy Crawford, who died in July at age 90, leaving a graveyard of decaying buses behind his house on the outskirts of Birmingham.His private coaches, all of them tended by Mr. Crawford almost until the day he died, do not have the panache of the city buses that the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.refused to ride. But they have significance nonetheless.With their cracked windows and rusting engines thick with brambles, they are remnants of something that was quite rare in the South: a bus company owned by an African-American.

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  1. "Get people talking about civil rights-era buses and it’s all Rosa Parks all the time."

    Well Parks contributed heavily to the end of segregation. Worcy, for all his amazing accomplishments, may have actually helped delay the start of the movement.

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