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George Houser

George Houser, with Bayard Rustin, headed the Congress of Racial Equality's Journey of Reconciliation, whose interracial riders reached Chapel Hill in April 1947. As the buses left Chapel Hill for Greensboro on April 13, four riders were arrested and a taxi driver struck rider James Peck.

Source: NCpedia: Journey of Reconciliation, 1947

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Charles Miles Jones papers, 1924-1990s.

Jones, Charles Miles, 1906-1993 · 1924

Charles Miles Jones, 1906 to 1993, a Presbyterian minister in Chapel Hill, left these papers covering 1924 into the 1990s, about 1,800 items in 2.5 linear feet, collection 5168 in the Southern Historical Collection at UNC. The papers concern civil rights and segregation in North Carolina, the Chapel Hill Presbyterian Church, the Community Church of Chapel Hill, the Fellowship of Southern Churchmen, and names including Frank Porter Graham and Bayard Rustin.

Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Houser, George M.

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  1. Journey of Reconciliation comes to Chapel Hill Interracial riders testing segregation on interstate buses reached Chapel Hill on April 12, 1947. The next day police arrested four of them at the bus station and a white cab driver struck rider James Peck. Convicted in Orange County, Bayard Rustin, Igal Roodenko and Joe Felmet surrendered at the Hillsborough courthouse on March 21, 1949 to serve chain-gang sentences. People: Bayard Rustin, George Houser, Igal Roodenko, Joseph A. FelmetTown of Chapel Hill: Information packet for Freedom Riders resolution (Council agenda, January 28, 2008)

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