Wilson’s Art Deco bus station stood from 1938 to the mid-1990s.
In 1943, a dozen years before Claudette Colvin and Rosa Parks’ celebrated acts of resistance, at least four young African-American men and women refused to move to the back of Wilson buses. Read again of their direct challenges to Jim Crow and discrimination and lift up their memory.
I remember going to this building to pick up relatives and the sonorous rhythmic voice of the man who called out the arrivals and departures. So wish we had historic recordings of that sound that called to the adventurer in me to visit other towns and states.
I am sure this building and the clinic nearby shaped my deep and abiding love for all things art deco!
This picture is a PERSONAL TRIGGER from my childhood.
“Art Deco” building full of racist attitudes and racism !! Oh, how I remember!
This place was the beginnings of “my why” and ” my why not”.