FREEDOM RIDERS 50TH ANNIVERSARY

FREEDOM RIDERS 50TH ANNIVERSARY: Freedom Riders were civil rights worker* that rode interstate buses into the segregated southern U.S.A. to test the United States Supreme Court conclusion Boynton v. Virginia (of 1960). This is among the most significant moments in civil right chronicle started on the streets of D.C. with the daring and historic freedom rides in objection of separatism.

At that place was a time that blacks in the South weren't permitted to sit in the front of a bus. Blacks and whites coulded side by side. On Wed, Mayor Vincent Gray esteemed 3 freedom riders for their bravery.

Several than four hundred civil rights activists boarded buses in 1961 to gainsaid Jim Crow’s travel rules, shared buses, separate waiting stores and race-based rest rooms. When the 1st thirteen Freedom Riders designed a 2 week trek from Washington, D.C. They'd accept 2 buses through the deep South.

Hank Thomas was just nineteen when he boarded the bus. They had no concocted any sort of violence. But violence would arrive 10 days after. Outside of Anniston, Alabama, Thomas’ bus was environed by the Ku Klux Klan and set aflame. He and 5 others were virtually burned alive.(READ MORE)