The purpose in constructing the Continental Trailways Bus Center at 408 Fannin St. in downtown Shreveport (now the Greyhound bus terminal) was to create a passenger transit point where numerous ...

SHREVEPORT, La. (KTAL/KMSS) – The Trailways Bus Center in Shreveport was segregated from the moment it opened on June 28, 1948, until the city’s civil rights movement finally tipped the scales and ...

MAY 31 – Fifty years ago the Victoria Advocate reported the wedding of G. Harris and Miss Caroline Hans, May 30, 1871. The Advocate reported “the wedding having been solemnized at high noon, the ...

Continental Trailways, one of the biggest U.S. bus lines, also has a big weakness: its routes are chiefly between Denver and Chicago and the Gulf. It has only one route to the West Coast (to Los ...

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As you may recall, seven years ago, in May of 1961, bunches of so-called Freedom Riders bused down south and intentionally provoked the armed mobs who had gathered to greet them with bricks, lead ...

The early days of downtown's bus terminal Since 1949, 408 Fannin St. has operated a bus terminal Originally built as the Continental Trailways Bus Center, it became a transportation node for several ...

Jimmy Allen Ruth, the Trailways bus driver for a group of Nashville Freedom Riders, died Wednesday while hospitalized at Saint Francis Hospital-Bartlett in Bartlett, Tennessee, his family confirmed.

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. SHREVEPORT, La. (KTAL/KMSS) – The Trailways ...