Gentlemen protesting segregated bus seating - Tallahassee, Florida

Title

• Gentlemen protesting segregated bus seating - Tallahassee, Florida

Image Number

• RC12419

Year

• 1956

Date Note

• Photographed on December 24, 1956.

Series Title

• General: Reference collection

General Note

• Reverend C. K. Steele (center left), Reverend Dan Speed (center right) and Reverend A. C. Redd (pastor of the St. James CME Church [now, 2009, the Florida Tax Watch headquarters on Bronough Street]) protested segregated seating on Tallahassee city buses by sitting in the middle instead of at the back of the bus. This action ended a boycott of nearly seven months, brought on by the arrest of two FAMU women students for sitting beside a white woman. As a result of the boycott, 21 members of the Inter Civic Council were convicted on charges of operating an illegal transportation system set up as a car pool without a franchise.

Physical Description

• 1 photoprint - b&w - 8 x 10 in.

Subject Term

• African American men--Florida--Tallahassee
• African American civil rights workers--Florida--Tallahassee
• Civil rights movements
• Discrimination in public accommodations
• Buses

Geographic Term

• Tallahassee (Fla)
• Leon County (Fla)

Personal Subject

• Redd, Albert C
• Speed, Dan
• Steele, C. K. (Charles Kenzie), 1914-1980

Shelf Number

• Shelf number: 07846.

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