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Freedom Riders. This portrait of a group of Freedom Riders was taken in the basement of Ralph Abernathy’s church in Montgomery, Alabama on May 1, 1961 before they set out on a bus ride intended to expose local segregationist policies in southern states.
May 18, 2020 · It is just not simply a narrative, but you can see the actual place. And that’s why I’m so glad the museum is there, at that same bus station,” said Freedom Rider Dr. Bernard Lafayette. “It shows it is a reality, and it did happen. We can go revisit that and be able to imagine it happening.
Feb 5, 2020 · Montgomery Advertiser. 0:02. 0:51. Bernard Lafayette speaks Thursday, 5:30 p.m. at Freedom Rides Museum. Talk is free with paid admission to museum. Bernard Lafayette Jr. remembers...
- Shannon Heupel
- Go Play Reporter / Engagement Editor
May 16, 2024 · It will take place at the Freedom Rides Museum, 210 South Court Street in Montgomery on Saturday, May 18, 2024, at 10 am. The guest speaker will be Freedom Rider Dr. Bernard Lafayette, Jr., one of the earliest practitioners of Martin Luther King’s philosophy of nonviolence.
Freedom Rides. In 1961, the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) initiated a movement to enforce federal integration laws on interstate bus routes. This movement, known as the Freedom Rides, had African American and white volunteers ride together on bus routes through the segregated South. Lafayette wanted to participate, but his parents forbade him.
May 5, 2021 · Bernard Lafayette Jr. was one of the student Freedom Riders attacked that same day at the Greyhound bus station, which is the home of the museum. Lafayette and Alabama Rep. Terri Sewell...
Freedom Riders is the powerful harrowing and ultimately inspirational story of six months in 1961 that changed America forever. From May until November 1961, more than 400 black and white ...
