Jones' struggle is important not only because he fought the good fight but also because it sheds light on a much ignored history of the early fight for public transportation in the segregated South.
No, the struggle did not begin and happily end when Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat in 1955. The truth is much messier and older, and it is far different than the sanitized story depicted in most of our history books.
Below, Jones' Indictment in the Richmond City Hustings Court
https://www.kolumnmagazine.com/.../a-seat-in-the-new-south/
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