By Kayla Thompson
May 24, 2021 | 5:28 PM
JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) – Monday, May 24, marks 60 years since the Freedom Riders were arrested in Jackson.
Fred Douglas Moore Clark, Sr., was one of the Freedom Riders from Jackson. He said in 1959, he got more involved in the fight to end segregation on public transportation.
“I went to train under Martin Luther King in the swamps of Georgia when school was out, and from there, I witnessed a lot of things.”
In 1961, he organized a group to get on a bus out of Jackson, but things took a turn.
“I pushed a door on the wrong side, and it made a loud noise and scared everybody. So it put everybody on alert, so the police asked us to get out of the station three times. And of course, we didn’t. So, we were arrested for breach of peace and inciting a riot,” he stated.