Freedomriders

Freedom Riders

  • Supreme Court ruled to make Blacks sit in the back of the bus traveling from state to state.

    Supreme Court ruled to make Blacks sit in the back of the bus traveling from state to state.
  • 13 African Americans and White civil rights activits launched the Freedom Rides

    13 African Americans and White civil rights activits launched the Freedom Rides
  • On Mothers Day, the freedom riders decide to divide into two groups to travel to Alabama

  • Birmingham police arrested the Nashville Freedom Riders and took them to jail.

  • The Freedom Riders got on another Greyhound Bus heading to Montgomery, Alabama.

  • Riders were faced with more beatings in Jackson Mississippi