Greyhound Lines was founded in 1914 in Hibbing, Minnesota by Carl Wickman (1887-1954). By 1927, the company offered transcontinental trips and had opened bus stations across the nation. The Nashville Greyhound terminal opened c. 1929 in the Union Bus Terminal, located at Commerce Street and Sixth Avenue. The Greyhound Station housed a restaurant called the Post House, where Nashville students staged sit-ins to protest segregated lunch-counters. Under Diane Nash’s (1938-) leadership, a group of Freedom Riders left here for Birmingham to continue the protest of state segregation of interstate buses and facilities. Greyhound moved to its present location on Rep. John Lewis Way in 2010.
Greyhound Station
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Greyhound Lines was founded in 1914 in Hibbing, Minnesota by Carl Wickman (1887-1954). By 1927, the company offered transcontinental trips and had opened bus stations across the nation. The Nashville Greyhound terminal opened c. 1929 in the Union Bus Terminal, located at Commerce Street and Sixth Avenue. The Greyhound Station housed a restaurant called the Post House, where Nashville students staged sit-ins to protest segregated lunch-counters. Under Diane Nash’s (1938-) leadership, a group of Freedom Riders left here for Birmingham to continue the protest of state segregation of interstate buses and facilities. Greyhound moved to its present location on Rep. John Lewis Way in 2010.