13502675, they bought rides with Black taxis for $.10 cents Posted by legsdiamond, Thu Apr-25-24 04:28 PM
40,000 Black folk used the buses in Montgomery.. 75% of bus riders were Black in Montgomery.
Although African Americans represented at least 75 percent of Montgomery’s bus ridership, the city resisted complying with the protester’s demands. To ensure the boycott could be sustained, Black leaders organized carpools, and the city’s African American taxi drivers charged only 10 cents—the same price as bus fare—for African American riders.
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