View Freedom Riders Attacked In Alabama While Testing Compliance With Bus Desegregation Laws Images. The freedom riders were a group of civil right's activists. The freedom rides continued, and nash later joined the selma voting rights efforts, culminating in the selma to montgomery march.

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Police in birmingham, alabama decided to use violence to stop the campaign when it reached their the bus continued on to birmingham, where it was again attacked at the bus terminal by a mob some freedom riders left behind in montgomery were arrested for violating local segregation laws. A mob of 300 white segregationists attacked black and white freedom riders at the greyhound bus station in montgomery, alabama. Freedom rider hank thomas shares his story of riding the bus from anniston alabama, challenging the segregation laws at the time.

A traveler from the bus leaving anniston station.

During the fifteen minutes in anniston, while the mob slashed tires and smashed windows, one policeman appeared in a brown. Wake county in north carolina is testing the segregation waters with its decision to stop busing students in their district. Civil rights activists known as freedom riders sit at a bus station in birmingham, alabama, in may gardendale schools are racially diverse institutions in an otherwise white enclave in large part because zoning and desegregation transfer. The final validated vote tallied in that test: