The Civil Rights Struggle to Bring Buses to Beavercreek, Ohio

[votesparks]

Run time: 10:19 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjjNPd_CIuM   Posted on YouTube: September 20, 2011 By YouTube Member: daytoninformer Views on YouTube: 2   Posted on DU: September 20, 2011 By DU Member: votesparks Views on DU: 780

 
Dayton. Ohio Citizen Ronnie Moreland, who serves as co-president of L.E.A.D. (Leaders for Equality in Action in Dayton), talked to anti-poverty activists and took questions about the fight to bring RTA Public Transportation service to the Fairfield Mall, which the City of Beavercreek, Ohio, a conservative suburb of Dayton, has resisted and fought.

Many in the Dayton area believe Beavercreek's denial of bus stops is driven by racism and that by denying the bus stops at the mall is denying people without a car opportunity.

This was filmed 9-19-2011 at the Macedonia Missionary Baptist Church on Gettysburg Avenue in Dayton.

[Mustellus]

1. I live in Beavercreek....

...and its always about "Crime".....

So I say "yes, if I was going to rob a store at the Fairfield Mall, I'd want to use the buses as my getaway vehicle.

[elleng]

2. Wouldn't be surprised; have 'relatives' there.

[RZM]

3. Actually it's the 'Fairfield Commons' ;)

I went to high school in Beavercreek. I remember when the mall opened in 1993 and this issue was raised back then. There are bus stops about 1/2 mile away at Wright State University. Every once in a while I used to see people hoofing it from the WSU stops to the mall.