Freedom Riders By mckennabailee Jan 1, 1946 Supreme Court ruled to make Blacks sit in the back of the bus traveling from state to state. May 4, 1961 13 African Americans and White civil rights activits launched the Freedom Rides May 14, 1961 On Mothers Day, the freedom riders decide to divide into two groups to travel to Alabama May 17, 1961 Birmingham police arrested the Nashville Freedom Riders and took them to jail. May 20, 1961 The Freedom Riders got on another Greyhound Bus heading to Montgomery, Alabama. May 25, 1961 Riders were faced with more beatings in Jackson Mississippi
