19+ Freedom Riders Bus Burning Pics. A mob of 300 white segregationists attacked black and white freedom riders at the greyhound bus station in montgomery, alabama. Civil rights, black power and.

Freedom Riders Hit The Road Again 50 Years After Us Civil Rights Milestone Mississippi The Guardian from i.guim.co.uk

When the freedom riders step off the bus, hundreds of klansmen swarm over them, screaming get the niggers! they attack with baseball bats, broken bottles, and lead pipes. Connor claimed that he knew. Bus, stopped by flat tire, was surrounded by crowd of whites.

White freedom riders were particularly singled out for frenzied beatings.

Hank thomas, was one of the freedom riders on the bus burned by ku klux klan members, spoke with russ mitchell on the. Freedom riders were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern united states, in 1961 and. Separate facilities for whites and blacks were the norm in the south, like at this durham, north carolina, bus station in 1940. The second bus, a trailways photographs of the burning greyhound bus and the bloodied riders appeared on the front pages of newspapers throughout the country and around.