Sun., Feb 27, 10 am: Freedom Riders Speak

The NonViolent Movement and the Freedom Rides: "Untold Stories" in the Civil Rights Movement

The Freedom Rides focused attention on the Supreme Court decision Boynton vs. the State of Virginia, won in 1960, which outlawed segregation in interstate bus travel but was not being practiced in the South. The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) sponsored the first bus on May 4, 1961 from Washington, D.C. and invited participants from the 1960 sit-ins to join the bus ride. The Nashville Student Coordinating team followed up with support buses, one of which was firebombed in Anniston, Alabama.  

3 Freedom Riders join us on Sunday, February 27, 10 am

Free. All are welcome.

Angeline Butler, former USC professor, Nashville coordinator of the May4-July, 1961 Freedom Rides, and SNCC founding member

Former Federal Administrative Judge Norman D. Fertig, and former USC professor of Social Work, was a Freedom Rider on the June 2 bus to Selma, Al and Jackson, MS

Dr Robert Singleton, professor in Economics at Loyola Marymount University, was a Freedom Rider on the July 31 bus to Jackson, MS