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Before Uber: How 1960s civil rights activists built a motor fleet out of their Atlanta headquarters

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Sixty-three years ago in February 1960, four Black college students in Greensboro, N.C., stayed in their seats at a segregated Woolworth's lunch counter. Some 300 students would soon join that protest and sit-ins at segregated establishments all across the South. The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, also known as SNCC, was founded. To travel throughout the rural South, they organized a car fleet.

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Before Uber: How 1960s civil rights activists built a motor fleet out of their Atlanta headquarters

During the civil rights movement, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee developed a system of shared rides for activists in the South called the Sojourner Motor Fleet. Morning Edition's Leah Fleming interviews members Freddie Greene Biddle and Judy Richardson to talk about how the fleet was organized right out of SNCC's Atlanta headquarters.

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