Letter to Editor: I Rode on Segregated Buses

Dear Cascade Patch:

Love your post.

I never lived in Atlanta but had relatives there in the Cascade area, on Veltre Circle.

I grew up in Greensboro, N.C., and attended Fisk University in Nashville, Tenn., from 1956 to 1960.

To get to to Nashville from Greensboro, I had to take the Southern Railroad to Atlanta and change to the L&N Railroad to go to Nashville.

When I stopped in Atlanta, I recall there were two stations. I also recall that we were not allowed to ride in a white cab.

If no colored cabs were available, we had to walk across a bridge to the other station.

I don't know when this practice ended but I do recall that this is how it was then.

Thank your for sharing this history.

—Cascade Patch Reader Kenneth Martin, New York City