View Freedom Riders Bus Surrounded Background. The freedom rides continued, and nash later joined the selma voting rights efforts, culminating in attacked black and white freedom riders at the greyhound bus station in montgomery, alabama. When a member of the mob tossed a firebomb through a broken bus window, others in the mob attempted to trap the passengers inside the burning vehicle by barricading the door.

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They traveled in integrated seating and visited white only restaurants. Smoke pours out of a bus in which freedom riders seeking to test bus station segregation in south were traveling near anniston, ala. White freedom riders were particularly singled out for frenzied beatings.

The mob followed the bus in automobiles.

White freedom riders were particularly singled out for frenzied beatings. Vivian (left) and diane nash, center, who had organized other successful nonviolent protests in tennessee. The 1961 freedom rides were public bus trips undertaken by racially integrated groups through the deep south to test the enforcement of a newly enacted court order prohibiting segregation in interstate bus terminals. Va), the congress of with no police in sight, an angry mob, many of them klansmen, surrounds a bus carrying freedom riders at the anniston, alabama bus station.