Freedom Riders sit on their luggage at a bus station, Birmingham, Alabama, May 1961. As part of a protest against the racial segregation of...
Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, , believes that repetition of the "dangerous" racial incidents in Alabama could be avoided if responsible...
State highway patrolmen stand guard over burning Greyhound bus with clubs and drawn guns, near Anniston, Alabama, May 14 after a mob of white...
Freedom Group Hangs Signs on Bus. New York: Members of a group called "The Washington Freedom Riders Committee" hang signs on the side of bus parked...
"Freedom Riders" surrounded by photographers prepare to board a Trailways bus for Mississippi from Montgomery, Alabama, under heavy guard by state...
Two members of the Freedom Riders reverend B. Elton Cox of High Point, North Carolina and Dr. Walter Bergman of Detroit are pictures as they were...
Mob of whites blocks the driveway exit at a bus terminal to keep a bus carrying 'Freedom Riders' from leaving Anniston, Alabama, 14th May 1961. Some...
New York, NY: James Peck marches in a picket line outside the Trailways Bus Station, in the Port Authority Terminal. Peck was severely beaten on May...
Former FBI informant, wearing a hood to preserve his new identity, told a Senate committee he quit the FBI because his agents did nothing to head off...
National Guard troops and local police stand guard during a temporary halt in the journey of the 'Freedom Riders' bus near here, May 24th. The...
Twenty-one year old ministerial student and member of the Freedom Riders, Jim Zwerg, lies in a hospital bed after being beaten by pro-segregationists...
As a Trailways bus carrying Freedom Riders arrives in Jackson, Mississippi, police officers with dogs prepare to arrest and jail those on board, 24th...
African American demonstrators gathered in front of Albany's City Hall, pray as Freedom Riders pass by. The Freedom Riders were being charged at City...
Freedom Riders Jimmy McDonald and James Peck talk to reporter Bill Cook upon their arrival in New Orleans. Peck had been beaten by...
Freedom Rider James Zwerg, stands bleeding, after an attack by white pro-segregationists at the Greyhound Bus Terminal in Montgomery, Alabama. Zwerg...
James Peck of New York who was on one of the two Freedom Rider buses is attacked at the bus station, Birmingham, Alabama, May 14, 1961. The other bus...
National Guardsmen showing strong presence as Freedom Riders make bus trip from Montgomery, Alabama to Jackson, Mississippi.
Rev. Ralph Abernathy arriving in Jackson, Mississippi after a Freedom Riders' bus trip from Montgomery, Alabama.
Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Speaking with unident. Man the morning of the Freedom Riders' bus trip from Montgomery, Alabama to Jackson, Mississippi.
Mrs. Lela Mae Williams of Huttig, Arkansas, arrives in Hyannis with seven of her nine children hoping to find work, Hyannis, Massachussetts, May 23,...
Freedom Riders on a Greyhound bus sponsored by the Congress Of Racial Equality , sit on the ground outside the bus after it was set afire by a group...
Some 32 Freedom Riders, including Protestant and Jewish clergymen, here for a 3 day test of bus desegregation between here and Florida. Shown prior...
Some 32 Freedom Riders, including Protestant and Jewish clergymen, here for a 3 day test of bus desegregation between here and Florida. Shown prior...
Profile of an unidentified Freedom Rider as she looks out of a bus window, late May 1961. The photo was taken during the Montgomery, Alabama to...
View of American Civil Rights activist Bernard Lafayette Jr during a Freedom Riders planning session, Montgomery, Alabama, May 1961. He holds a pen...
Along with unidentified others, American minister and Civil Rights activist Reverend CT Vivian reads a newspaper in a bus station during one the...
Along with unidentified others, American Civil Rights activist John Lewis , his head bandaged, studies a map on a table in a temporary safe house...
Civil rights activists and Freedom riders James Bevel and CT Vivian en route from Montgomery, Alabama, to Jackson, Mississippi, as they seek to...
Civil rights activists known as the Freedom Riders disembark from their bus , en route from Montgomery, Alabama, to Jackson, Mississippi, as they...
The military guard a bus en route from Montgomery, Alabama, as civil rights activists known as the Freedom Riders head for Jackson, Mississippi, 24th...
Police escort one the civil rights activists known as the Freedom Riders following his arrest for attempting to use a 'whites only' waiting room at...
The military guard a bus en route from Montgomery, Alabama, as civil rights activists known as the Freedom Riders head for Jackson, Mississippi, 24th...
Interior of the First Baptist Church, where passengers on the Freedom Ride have taken refuge from the violence that met them at the Greyhound Bus...
Interior of the First Baptist Church, where passengers on the Freedom Ride have taken refuge from the violence that met them at the Greyhound Bus...
Interior of the First Baptist Church, where passengers on the Freedom Ride have taken refuge from the violence that met them at the Greyhound Bus...
View of police officers, including one with a police dog, as they wait near where a group of Freedom Riders were to board a bus, Birmingham, Alabama,...
American civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Sits on a couch and speaks on the telephone after encountering a white mob protesting...
Photograph of a civil rights protesters carrying signs and demonstrating outside of a movie segregated theater, they were part of a group known as...
Civil rights activists known as the Freedom Riders en route from Montgomery, Alabama, to Jackson, Mississippi, as they seek to enforce integration by...
