The white driver beat a black passenger, hitting him at least 18 times before dragging him off the bus.

On some occasions bus drivers would drive away before black passengers were able to reboard.

Enraged whites then surrounded it and opened fire, wounding four black passengers.

As required by law in Southern states the train passed through, the combination baggage/coach was reserved for black passengers.

He said black passengers, in particular, "are used to asking whether drivers are willing to take them uptown and that they shouldn't have to do."

Her subsequent arrest inspired the city's bus boycott by black passengers, and that action gave the civil rights movement its start.

Griffin began to give his seat to a white woman on the bus, but disapproving looks from black passengers stopped him.

Economics may play a role when black passengers are passed, but the primary reason is because they are black, period.

The Court held that white and black passengers must be treated with equality in the use of the railroad's cars:

Another told of a police patrol on a bus, making routine identity checks, that approached only the five black passengers.