Sentences with phrase «blacks supported busing»

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With the support of NAACP and also some members of the women's political council (Blacks), he adopted the bus boycott.

Those who support continuing to bus students out of the neighborhood say that putting them in Leesburg and Frederick Douglass — built on the same site as a school that served the county's black students during segregation — amounts to segregation that will exacerbate their academic challenges.

You can still see black and red murals from time to time whose role was to eke out support for the left wing Sandinistas (a Nicaraguan group that overthrew President Anastasio Somoza Debayle in 1979), ox carts that sometimes slow down the traffic, cycle taxis, and creaky but colourful chicken busses transporting school children, farmers or chicken - carrying locals around the cities and towns, often at breakneck speed.

Called Art Everywhere and supported by Innocent Drinks» Richard Reed, the Art Fund, Tate and the poster industry, the project has seen 57 works by British artists appear on billboards, bus stops and black cabs around the UK.

Progressive Conservative leader Doug Ford defends his record of supporting the Black community and his decision to go without a traditional campaign tour bus.