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Blue and white pinback button reading Freedom Ride CORE. Freedom Riders: May 14, 1961 Freedom Riders: May 24, 1961 Freedom Rides: May 26, 1961 Twelve black-and-white mug shots of Freedom Riders arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, each holding a placard with police department information and identification numbers. Infographic map and timeline detailing the 1961 Freedom Rides, with color-coded bus routes across the southern United States connecting cities such as Washington, D.C., Birmingham, Nashville, Jackson, Tallahassee, St. Louis, and New Orleans. Red stars mark locations where violence or confrontation occurred. Text boxes summarize each route, list key participants, and describe major incidents, including attacks in Rock Hill, Anniston, Birmingham, Montgomery, Jackson, Sumter, Tallahassee, and Littl Freedom Riders Freedom Rides Museum
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Pinback button for CORE's Freedom Ride, 1961
Freedom Riders: May 14, 1961
Freedom Riders watching as their bus goes up in smoke following an ambush and firebombing...
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Freedom Riders: May 24, 1961
Black and white Freedom Riders preparing to board a Jackson, Mississippi-bound bus...
Perry Aycock—AP/Shutterstock.com
Freedom Rides: May 26, 1961
Members of the Alabama National Guard protecting a bus of Freedom Riders en route...
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Freedom Riders: Arrested July 2–5, 1961
Collage of mug shots of 12 Freedom Riders arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, July...
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Explore the routes of the Freedom Rides of 1961
Infographic showing the routes and timeline of the Freedom Rides of 1961.
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc./Kenny Chmielewski
Freedom Riders
Freedom Riders preparing to board a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, May 24, 1961.
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Freedom Rides Museum
Freedom Rides Museum, Montgomery, Alabama, preserving the Greyhound bus station where...
Carol M. Highsmith/Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (reproduction no. LC-DIG-highsm-05624)
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