United States, Alabama, Montgomery County, 32.22026, -86.20761United States, Alabama, Montgomery County, Montgomery, 32.36681, -86.29997United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798Hatfield, Edward A.2007-10-05Encyclopedia article about the process and activity which led to bus desegregation in Atlanta, Georgia. In January 1957, following the successful bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama (1955-56), a group of black ministers launched the "Love, Law, and Liberation" movement to desegregate Atlanta's city buses. Under the leadership of the Reverend William Holmes Borders, the ministers staged a violation of the state law requiring segregation on common carriers, thereby securing the grounds for a legal challenge to Georgia's Jim Crow system. Two years later, in January 1959, a federal district court ruled in favor of the ministers, ending more than six decades of segregation on Atlanta's city buses.The Civil Rights Digital Library received support from a National Leadership Grant for Libraries awarded to the University of Georgia by the Institute of Museum and Library Services for the aggregation and enhancement of partner metadata.text/htmlengForms part of the New Georgia Encyclopedia.http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/Forms part of the New Georgia Encyclopedia.Atlanta (Ga.). Police DepartmentPolice chiefs--Georgia--AtlantaMayors--Georgia--AtlantaGovernors--GeorgiaBuses--Georgia--AtlantaBus drivers--Georgia--AtlantaBus lines--Georgia--AtlantaBus lines--Ridership--Georgia--AtlantaBus terminals--Georgia--AtlantaSegregation in transportation--Georgia--AtlantaDiscrimination in public accommodations--Georgia--AtlantaSegregation--Georgia--AtlantaBoycotts--Alabama--MontgomeryCivil rights--Georgia--AtlantaAfrican Americans--Civil rights--Georgia--AtlantaViolence--Georgia--AtlantaPolice power--Georgia--AtlantaPolice-Community relations--Georgia--AtlantaPolice vehicles--Georgia--AtlantaArrest--Georgia--AtlantaCivil disobedience--Georgia--AtlantaCivil rights workers--Georgia--AtlantaAfrican American civil rights workers--Georgia--AtlantaCivil rights movements--Georgia--AtlantaPolitical activists--Georgia--AtlantaAfrican American political activists--Georgia--AtlantaClergy--Georgia--AtlantaAfrican American clergy--Georgia--AtlantaReligious leaders--Georgia--AtlantaAfrican American religious leaders--Georgia--AtlantaWheat Street Baptist Church (Atlanta, Ga.)Government, Resistance to--Georgia--AtlantaAtlanta Transit CompanyUnited States. District Court (Georgia : Northern District : Atlanta Division)Bus desegregation in AtlantaText