49+ Freedom Riders Bus Attacked Pictures. The freedom rides continued, and nash later joined the selma voting rights efforts, culminating in the selma to montgomery march. When the activists reached alabama on may 14 the attacks intensified.

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These tactics became know as the freedom rides. There a mob supported by fierce segregationist and commissioner of public safety, eugene bull connor, attacked the riders and would have killed them except for a rescue organized by birmingham black leader, reverend. Freedom rides museum, montgomery, alabama, preserving the greyhound bus station where freedom riders were attacked and beaten by a mob on may 20, 1961.

Zwerg was white and the mob attacked him while other riders managed to move away.

(ap) — freedom riders who were attacked in alabama's capital on may 20, 1961, returned 50 years later to be hailed as heroes and to have a museum dedicated at the old bus station where they were confronted by an angry white mob. Freedom rider ivor jerry moore. There a mob supported by fierce segregationist and commissioner of public safety, eugene bull connor, attacked the riders and would have killed them except for a rescue organized by birmingham black leader, reverend. Zwerg was white and the mob attacked him while other riders managed to move away.