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Birmingham's Catherine Burks-Brooks, on 60th anniversary, Recalls Her Historic Ride for Freedom

Birmingham's Catherine Burks-Brooks, on 60th anniversary, Recalls Her Historic Ride for Freedom
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Hundreds eventually joined the Freedom Rides movement. These are the 13 who started it all.


Hundreds eventually joined the Freedom Rides movement. These are the 13 who started it all.
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She was 13 when a bloodied John Lewis arrived at her home, looking for refuge
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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.
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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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Show compassion for homeless man who was arrested


This letter  concerns the homeless man, Brian Freeman, who was featured in an article in The Record.
From your story, Freeman was doing a valuable service by picking up trash and putting in flowers and was living by the Moultrie Bridge.   He was bothering no one.  The person who ordered the police to arrest him should be fired!   A person with that attitude would not be employed on any vessel I was operating. ....

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Alabama Freedom Rider Catherine Burks-Brooks recalls her civil rights journey


By Michael Sznadjerman
Alabama Newscenter
In her police mugshot taken almost 60 years ago in Jackson, Mississippi, Catherine Burks-Brooks looks straight into the camera, without fear or agitation. One might even interpret the curve of her mouth as a smirk.
What was Brooks – then a 21-year-old college student and Freedom Rider, already battle-hardened from several civil rights actions – really thinking about when the bulb flashed?
“When they took that picture, I knew I was going to jail,” said Brooks, who lives in Center Point, near Birmingham. “I was tired. I was hungry. And I was ready to get into bed. I was not afraid.” ....

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