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Hundreds eventually joined the Freedom Rides movement. These are the 13 who started it all. Brad Zinn, Monique Calello and Ayano Nagaishi, Nashville Tennessean She was 13 when a bloodied John Lewis arrived at her home, looking for refuge Replay Video UP NEXT NASHVILLE, Tenn. – In May 1961, 13 men and women boarded a bus in Washington, D.C., bound for New Orleans to celebrate the seventh anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court s landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision that desegregated public schools. © Johnson Publishing Company Eleven of the 13 original Freedom Riders sponsored by the Congress of Racial Equality in 1961. They did so, but not without fear in the face of violence. The buses they rode on were bombed. They were beaten and jailed, but their spirits were not broken.

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