On May 4, a new interactive exhibit a vintage Greyhound bus rolled into the Freedom Rides Museum in Montgomery, Alabama.
For a decade, the museum has told the stories of the 400-plus men and women, Black and white, who boarded interstate buses headed south in the summer of 1961. Their goal was to compel leaders to enforce Supreme Court decisions banning segregation on buses and in transportation facilities throughout the United States.
The premiere commemorates the 60th anniversary of the date the initial Congress of Racial Equality-sponsored Freedom Riders drove out of Washington, D.C., to challenge the segregation of interstate travel.
The Alabama Historical Commission on Tuesday officially unveiled a restored Greyhound bus as part of a 60th anniversary exhibit commemorating the 1961 Freedom Rides protesting the segregation of bus terminals. The commission unveiled the bus, which was in service at the time of the protests, during a ceremony at its Freedom Rides Museum in Montgomery, Ala., on Tuesday to mark the date the first group of Freedom Riders left on a bus from.