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Bernard Lafayette Jr., Tampa, FL Twenty-year-old Bernard Lafayette hailed from Tampa, FL and was enrolled as an undergraduate at Nashville's American Baptist Theological Seminary.
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.
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.
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 ...
Jun 21, 2018 · 6. 1.6K views 5 years ago. Dr. Bernard Lafayette details the personal and family history that led him to become a Freedom Rider in 1961. ...more. Thank you to Reflection Films for...
Jun 27, 2022 · Our colleague Clayborne Carson at the World House Project at Stanford drew our attention to the film “When I Get Grown – Reflections of a Freedom Rider,” which documents in a very beautiful way the experience of one key participant — Dr. Bernard Lafayette — in a movement that changed history.
Jul 27, 2020 · Bernard Lafayette, a fellow Freedom Rider, reflects on Lewis’s legacy of resistance. by Fabiola Cineas. Jul 27, 2020, 6:55 PM UTC. Civil rights icon John Lewis, who died earlier this month,...
