New mural unveiled at Montgomery’s Freedom Rides Museum
In honor of the 64th anniversary of the Freedom Rides, a new community mural has been unveiled at the Freedom Rides Museum in downtown Montgomery.
Freedom Riders
Several Commemorate the 60th Anniversary of the Freedom Rides
On May 4, 1961, the Freedom Riders began their journey to the segregated south in hopes to desegregate bus terminals. Now, 60 years later, several city and state leaders along with members of the community gathered at the same place those Freedom Riders arrived at here in Montgomery, to commemorate the anniversary. “John Lewis and I desegregated a Greyhound bus…
Freedom Riders National Monument Opening in Anniston
ANNISTON, Ala. (AP) — The old Greyhound bus depot in Anniston has opened for the first time as the Freedom Riders National Monument four years after it was established. The monument recognizes the story of activists who set out as “Freedom Riders” in 1961 to test racial integration and public accommodations on interstate bus lines. A bus was stopped by…
