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/ Mugshots of a group of Freedom Riders who were arrested and jailed in Jackson, Miss. 1961.
Sixty years after the Freedom Riders began their journey into the South from the nation’s capital, Beverly Bassett belted out her favorite freedom song outside of the Greyhound bus station in Montgomery.
“Ain’t gonna let segregation turn me around,” she sang with a slight growl in her voice.
Now known as the
Freedom Rides Museum, the bus station was one of the many stops the interracial group of civil rights activists made as they departed in 1961 to test the enforcement of an earlier
Freedom Riders movement celebrates 60th anniversary
Freedom Riders movement celebrates 60th anniversary By Bryan Henry | May 4, 2021 at 6:56 PM CDT - Updated May 4 at 6:56 PM
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WSFA) - A major part of civil rights history came alive Tuesday in Montgomery - a ceremony to honor what happened 60 years ago this month.
Bernard Lafayette remembers it all too well.
“And they kicked me in the ribs,” said Lafayette, who said he had three cracked ribs.
Lafayette was all of 21 years old. He was on board a Greyhound bus during the growing but dangerous civil rights movement. Lafayette and more than 20 other riders got a “greeting” at the bus terminal that shocked the country. They were attacked by members of the Ku Klux Klan, assaulted with baseball bats, wooden boards and bricks.