The Freedom Rides
Monday April 6, 2009
The Freedom Rides were scheduled to take just thirteen days and initially involved only thirteen Freedom Riders, but by the end of the summer of 1961 over three hundred activists had participated in the Rides. Although the riders faced violent attacks by the KKK and other angry Southern whites, they never gave up. In the end, despite the many bumps in the road, nonviolent tactics worked and interstate travel was finally desegregated.
Photo courtesy of the Library of Congress
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Thank you for the opportunity to see these photographs of Martin Luther King. I will keep them always. I remember his struggle very well and the appalling circumstances.
He is my hero. I loved him very much.