Wednesday, 1 June 2011

ANNISTON 50 YEARS ON: THE FREEDOM RIDES - THIS WAS COMMITMENT WITH GREAT COURAGE - REMEMBER IT WELL!



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BBC News - Freedom Riders reunite after 50 years

www.bbc.co.uk/news/13533144
25 May 2011 ... Fifty years after the so-called Freedom Riders risked their lives ... The bus was firebombed in Anniston and later subject to a brutal Ku Klux ... them: there's something wrong with the world they're growing up in." ... Editors' blog · BBC College of Journalism · News sources · World Service Trust ...

Freedom riders - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_riders
The Freedom Riders set out to challenge this status quo by riding various ... When the Trailways bus reached Anniston and pulled in at the terminal an hour ... with a handful of the United States Marshals Service protecting the church ... the Rides as unpatriotic because they embarrassed the nation on the world ...



  1. Freedom riders - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_riders
    1 Starting point; 2 Mob violence in Anniston and Birmingham; 3 Mob violence in Montgomery; 4 Into Mississippi; 5 Notable Freedom Riders; 6 Impact ...
  2. Freedom Rides

    library.thinkquest.org/J0112391/freedom_rides.htm
    On May 14, 1961, Mother's Day, the Freedom Riders decided to divide into two groups to travel around Alabama. One group ran into trouble in Anniston, ...
  3. America on the Move | Freedom Riders stopped in Anniston, Alabama

    americanhistory.si.edu/onthemove/collection/object_546.html
    Freedom Riders stopped in Anniston, Alabama. Currently on display. Not a part of the official Smithsonian Collection. In 1961, the Congress of Racial ...
  4. Get On the Bus: The Freedom Riders of 1961 : NPR

    www.npr.org › News › Race
    12 Jan 2006 ... Just south of Anniston, the driver of a southbound Greyhound motioned to the driver of the Freedom Riders' bus, O. T. Jones, to pull over to ...
  5. Images for ANNISTON FREEDOM RIDERS

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  6. Freedom Rides

    biology.clc.uc.edu/.../freedom_rides/freedom_ride_dbf.htm
    The integrating actions of these Freedom Riders met with relatively minor resistance until they arrived in Anniston, Alabama on 14 May 1961. ...
  7. Anniston Star - Reconciliation understanding mark Freedom Riders ...

    www.annistonstar.com/.../article-Reconciliation--understanding-mark-Freedom-Riders--return-to-Anniston?... - United States
    12 May 2011 ... As he entered Classic on Noble for his dinner Wednesday evening, Hank Thomas, one of the Freedom Riders on the bus burned by Ku Klux Klan ...
  8. Freedom Rides (1961) | The Black Past: Remembered and Reclaimed

    www.blackpast.org/?q=aah/freedom-rides-1961
    Freedom Riders Bus Burned near Anniston, Alabama, 1961. Following the momentum of student-led sit-ins in Greensboro and Nashville in early 1960, ...
  9. Freedom riders remembered in Anniston

    www.myfoxal.com/story/.../freedom-riders-remembered-in-anniston?...true
    7 Sep 2010 ... 2011 marks the 50th anniversary of the May 14, 1961 bus burning, Anniston'spart of the Freedom Rides. It was an effort by protesters to ...
  10. Freedom Riders Public Events | 2011 Student Freedom Ride

    www.pbs.org/wgbh/.../freedomriders/2011/public-events/
    An array of activities commemorating the May 14, 1961 attacks on two busloads of Freedom Riders in Anniston will be held the week of May 9-15, 2011. ...
  11. SNCC-Events: Freedom Rides

    www.ibiblio.org/sncc/rides.html
    Freedom Rides During the Freedom Rides, SNCC members rode buses through the deep ...Meanwhile, the Trailways bus arrived in Anniston, Alabama where the ...
  12. News for ANNISTON FREEDOM RIDERS


  13. Students join a few original Freedom Riders on the ride of their lives
    Tampabay.com (blog)
    1 day ago - Or that some in Anniston might have retaliated against her, if she hadn't been so young. After telling her story in the Freedom Riders film and on Oprah, ...
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  14. Remembering those rides
    The Register-Guard