33+ Freedom Riders Bus Attacked Pictures. Zwerg was white and the mob attacked him while other riders managed to move away. The freedom riders continued, however, and crossed georgia without incident.
Mann tried to help zwerg, as did a justice department official called john. Attack on freedom riders, 1961. The riders in the trailways bus were also assaulted by anniston whites.
Freedom rides museum, montgomery, alabama, preserving the greyhound bus station where freedom riders were attacked and beaten by a mob on may 20, 1961.
Former civil rights activists raised in the south recount how their commitment to nonviolence was sorely tested by the extreme. A greyhound bus carrying the freedom riders was attacked by a mob who slashed its tires, and then. Freedom riders pose in washington d.c. Freedom riders on a greyhound bus sponsored by the congress of racial equality (core), sit on the ground outside the bus after it was set afire by after a similar mob attacked the freedom riders in birmingham, the u.s.