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Riding into History: The Surprising Story of Sarah Keys Evans and the Fight to Desegregate Bus Travel

By Amy Nathan, Sarah Keys Evans (Editor)
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By Amy Nathan, Sarah Keys Evans (Editor)
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As a member of the integrated Women’s Army Corps, Private First Class Sarah Keys served her country as a receptionist at Fort Dix, New Jersey. When she boarded a bus home to North Carolina in 1952, she never expected to be arrested and charged with disorderly conduct for refusing to move to the rear so a white Marine could take her seat. Her landmark 1955 Civil Rights victory, “Sarah Keys v. Carolina Coach Company” not only desegregated interstate bus travel, it also provided the legal prec...