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Experience an evening of performances marking the 50th anniversary of the Mississippi Freedom Summer Project.
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Freedom Riders: Then
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Fifty years ago, seven black people boarded buses with six white people in Washington, D.C., and took the fight for civil rights to the Deep South. Their trip became known as the Freedom Rides, and a new documentary by Stanley Nelson talks with the people who witnessed the rides firsthand.
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Never forget the courage and sacrifice of the Freedom Riders. Firebombed Freedom Ride bus in Annison, Alabama, on Mother's Day, May 14, 1961. Photo courtesy of the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute.
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Civil Rights activists holding hands in song in front of the bus.
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All sizes | Civil rights activist Priscilla Stephens being arrested - Tallahassee | Flickr - Photo Sharing!
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The segregation and disenfranchisement laws known as "Jim Crow" represented a formal, codified system of racial apartheid that dominated the American South.
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Freedom Riders
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On May 4, 1961, a group of Black and white civil rights activists boarded two buses in Washington, D.C. and set out on a mission to end segregation in public transportation throughout the South. Although they faced jail and angry mobs, they remained steadfast and focused on their goal to challenge Jim Crow laws and […]
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John Lewis and fellow Freedom Rider James Zwerg were attacked by pro-segregationists in Montgomery, Alabama. May 20, 1961.
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Freedom Rider bus burning in Anniston, Alabama, May 14, 1961; Freedom Rider Hank Thomas in foreground.
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The Freedom Rides represented a major evolution in the tactics and strategy of the Civil Rights Movement and marked an unprecedented level of engagement with the federal government.
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Frances Wilson, 1961. Frances, a 23 year old student at Tennessee State University, was expelled for her participation in the Freedom Rides along with 14 other students. In 2008, the expelled students all received honorary doctorates from Tennessee State University. Sadly, Frances did not live long enough to receive her degree.
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The newly colorized photos depict a number of the Freedom Riders in police mug shots after being arrested for a variety of offenses while fighting for civil rights causes in the 1960s.
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'Freedom Riders' screens at CalArts on Tuesday. America in 1961, especially in the deep South, would be almost unrecognizable today. State and local Jim Crow laws—which were enacted between 1876 …
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A group of Freedom Riders from Tennessee stands at the door of a Greyhound bus in Birmingham,Ala., waiting for a bus to leave for Montgomery on May 19, 1961. The Tennessee Board of Regents has changed its decision to deny honorary degrees to 14 students, at what is now called Tennessee State University, who were expelled for participating in Freedom Rides of the 1960s civil rights movement. The board voted unanimously on Friday, April 25, 2008, to change its March vote, which brought…
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