42+ Freedom Riders Bus PNG. The 1961 freedom rides were public bus trips undertaken by racially integrated groups through the deep south to test the enforcement of a newly enacted court order prohibiting segregation in interstate bus terminals. The freedom riders continued, however, and crossed georgia without incident.
This was a protest that showed dogs attacking innocent black people, police spraying people with water, and included the arrest of martin luther king.
The riders were met by the police who let them use the white section in the city's bus station. The first freedom ride took place on may 4, 1961 when seven blacks and six whites left washington, d.c., on two public buses bound for the the riders continued to mississippi, where they endured further brutality and jail terms but generated more publicity and inspired dozens more freedom rides. In 1961, the freedom riders traveled by bus through alabama and mississippi to challenge segregation at southern bus terminals. The story of a brave band of civil rights activists called freedom riders who challenged segregation in the american south in 1961.
