Beneath the Crust

What black woman got on a whites-only bus and ordered off by the conductor, refused to leave. She was wrestled off the bus but wrote angry letters of protest and successfully sued the bus line, setting in motion the desegregation of the public transit system. You know? Think you know? You might know? Or you just have no idea? Answer on page *** Play AFFRO and amaze your self with what you already know and what you will learn. Sample of AFFRO's Calling Cubes MALCOLM X I was spokesman for the Nation of Islam. Through my speeches, many blacks began to feel self respect and racial pride. I called President John Kennedy?s assassination a ?case of chickens coming home to roost ANNE MOORE I was a Volunteer Pediatric Nurse in the Peace Corps in the early 1960s. I invented the snugli and an airlift, a padded, portable and adjustable oxygen carrier. My sales hit the 6 million dollar mark in the 1970s after I got the highest ranking reviews by Consumer Report and the Wall Street Journal. WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON In 1831 I launched The Liberator. I organized the American Anti Slavery Society and was president from 1843-1865. I was a part of the Abolition Movement. ***Elizabeth Jennings In Manhattan in 1854, a school teacher named Elizabeth Jennings tried to take a horse-drawn bus traveling from the present-day City Hall area to her church on Sixth Street, in what is now the East Village. By 1860 or so, according to historian Hewitt, the First, Second, Third, Fourth and Eighth Avenue lines accepted black passengers.