
                         Roanoke Times
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DATE: WEDNESDAY, June 20, 1990                   TAG: 9006200109
SECTION: BUSINESS                    PAGE: B-5   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: WASHINGTON                                LENGTH: Short

PARKS, JACKSON LEAD GREYHOUND STRIKE RALLY

Rosa Parks, whose refusal to move to the back of a bus 35 years ago started a 381-day bus boycott in Montgomery, Ala., on Tuesday joined striking Greyhound drivers in their call for a boycott of the nation's only coast-to-coast bus line.

Parks and Jesse Jackson led some 300 protesters in a three-block march from a Greyhound bus terminal to Union Station near Capitol Hill. Jackson said the bus drivers' battle was similar to the civil rights struggle of the 1960s.

Union drivers from Detroit, Boston, Philadelphia and other cities chanted and carried signs condemning the company's refusal to resume contract negotiations and accusing Greyhound of trying to break their union in the 3 1/2-month strike. No arrests or property destruction were reported. - Associated Press

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