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Shareholder Meetings And Freedom Rides: The Story Of Peck V. Greyhound, Harwell Wells
Shareholder Meetings And Freedom Rides: The Story Of Peck V. Greyhound, Harwell Wells
Seattle University Law Review
In 1947, civil rights pioneers James Peck and Bayard Rustin, members of the radical religious group, the Fellowship of Reconciliation, and its offshoot, the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), prepared to embark on the Journey of Reconciliation, an interracial protest against segregated busing in the American South. But first, they did something else radical: they bought shares in a corporation. A year later, after their travels in the South had led to terror, death threats, beatings, and in Rustin’s case, a term on a chain gang, they brought their civil rights activism to a new site of protest—the shareholder meeting …