World's Largest Black Bus Company. Integration Destroyed It." The remarkable true story of Winston-Salem's Safe Bus Company (1926-1972), which became the largest Black-owned transportation company in the world. In 1926, city trolleys only served white neighborhoods, forcing Black tobacco workers to walk miles to work. Twenty-two Black entrepreneurs pooled $100,000 in life savings to merge 35 competing jitneys into one company. By 1935, Safe Bus transported 8,000 passengers daily with 80 drivers

The Safe Bus Company: The Black Men Who Built America’s First Black-Owned Bus Line Description: In 1926, twenty-one visionary Black men in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, came together to create the Safe Bus Company — a transportation revolution born out of unity and entrepreneurship. Led by Clarence T. Woodland, these former jitney drivers pooled their resources to serve their community when segregation denied them equal access to public transit. What started as a small collective grew into the

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