Get Freedom Riders Bus Surrounded PNG. The freedom riders were split between two buses. Freedom rider james zwerg said he asked for god to be with him, and i felt absolutely surrounded.
Telling 436 stories in one documentary. Numerous freedom riders were brutally beaten and hospitalized. When the greyhound bus pulled into anniston, it was immediately surrounded by an angry mob armed with iron bars.
The freedom rides continued, and nash later joined the selma voting rights efforts, culminating in attacked black and white freedom riders at the greyhound bus station in montgomery, alabama.
When the freedom riders exited the bus, they beaten by the mob with baseball bats, iron pipes and bicycle chains, and then, battered and bleeding, they were arrested. Lafayette peers out the window of his bus, surrounded by his fellow freedom riders and national guardsmen. Now, bus and train stations are nonsegregated because of. On wednesday morning, may 24, a dozen freedom riders board a trailways bus for the 250 mile journey to jackson ms.