21+ Freedom Riders Bus Attack Gif. The freedom ride left washington dc on may 4th, 1961. Virginia (1946) and boynton v.

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Outside anniston, alabama, one of their buses was burned, and in birmingham several dozen whites attacked the riders only two blocks from the. Highsmith/library of congress, washington, d.c. When the activists reached alabama on may 14 the attacks intensified.

Image captionthe freedom riders say they are being discriminated against by the israeli bus companies.

On may 14, 1961, a greyhound bus carrying seven freedom riders, organized by the congress of racial equality (core), traveled south from atlanta to test newly upheld federal prohibitions against segregation in. Genevieve hughes said she would have been killed but an when the buses arrived at the jackson terminal, the freedom riders, black and white, went into the white waiting room. Representative john lewis of georgia. When the freedom riders exited the bus, they were beaten by the mob, some wielding baseball bats, iron pipes and bicycle chains.