Download Freedom Riders Bus Burning Pics. National guard in montgomery, alabama (below). The freedom riders escaped the bus as it burst into flames, only to be brutally beaten by members of the surrounding mob.

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.supported memorial honors the freedom riders at the site where civil rights workers braved the vicious firebombing of their bus near anniston, alabama at the site—one of the most iconic locations in the struggle to end segregation—before the fiftieth anniversary of the bus burning occurs in 2011. Freedom riders jimmy mcdonald, center, hank thomas, foreground, and regular passenger roberta holmes, right, behind thomas, after bus burning melee, may 14, 1961. The plan was to arrive in new orleans on may a mob greeted the riders and many on the bus were severely beaten.

The freedom riders escaped the bus as it burst into flames, only to be brutally beaten by members of the surrounding mob.

Connor claimed that he knew. One freedom rider, james peck, was so badly beaten that his head when us attorney general robert kennedy was informed of the bus burning and beatings, he urged core to exercise restraint. When the freedom riders left the bus they were attacked by baseball bats and iron bars. Attack on freedom riders, 1961.