Tallahassee Bus Protest

Before the Tallahassee Bus Protest, Tallahassee was a town that took joy in being the only capital that was not catch by the Union Army. Also they never really had a problem with race relations in Tallahassee for a while unlike the rest of the Southern cities in the United States. Tallahassee was able to move forward from all of those issues for a while but it took a very long time for them to get to that point. There was a lot of other cities that were still dealing with segregation and there were a lot of black people that were getting brutally mistreated. Tallahassee is twenty miles away from southeast Georgia and less than ninety miles away from Alabama and they were still able to avoid any major prejudice issues for a while until the bus incident happen.
Two young women that were students from Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University were on a segregated bus and they sat down in the section where only whites are supposed to sit. The bus driver didn’t like that they were sitting in the “whites only” section and he also felt that they shouldn’t be sharing a seat with a white woman so he told them to stand and move to the “colored” section, but there was no other seats left so they refused to move. So when they decided not to move, the bus driver decided to call the police and he …show more content…
It raised fares, and the city agreed to reduce its franchise fee. The civil rights movement was also going on so I think it kind of helped the bus boycott gain more attention in Tallahassee because racial issues was such a big issue during that point. Even though the ICC was dealing with their problem in Tallahassee, they still supported racial issues that were going around in other place. Even though it took the whole entire community to solve this bus incident issue, it’s amazing to me how much FAMU had so much to do with ending segregation on Tallahassee