35+ Freedom Riders Attacked Images. Before reaching birmingham, the freedom riders had split with one group going to birmingham and another to anniston. Freedom riders were groups of white and african american civil rights activists who participated in freedom rides, bus trips through the american south in 1961 to protest segregated bus terminals.
The freedom rides continued, and nash later joined the selma voting rights efforts, culminating in may 20, 1961:
Most of the 427 riders they were attacked in alabama and jailed in mississippi, in parchman, the most notorious prison in. Freedom riders jimmy mcdonald, left, and hank thomas and regular passenger roberta holmes in the confusion, the mob also attacked a number of bystanders misidentified as freedom riders. Many of them were still hospitalized at st. The freedom riders today at mississippi state penitentiary in parchman.
