The Black veteran who desegregated interstate buses

The Black veteran who desegregated interstate buses

In the summer of 1952, 23-year-old Sarah Keys (later Sarah Keys Evans) was making her first trip home from the Army hospital where she worked in Trenton, New Jersey, to North Carolina since joining the Women’s Army Corps the year before. Awoken around midnight, the private first class was ordered to give up her seat to a white Marine. When she refused, Evans was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct. She spent the night pacing around a di…