Mississippi U S A 1961

F2013.134.2.0048

Description: Freedom riders had started to travel across the south with the purpose of contributing to the cause of of eliminating discrimination based on race or ethnicity by testing segregation policies in bus terminals. In May of 1961, a bus carrying fourteen black and white freedom riders arrived at a bus station in Jackson, Mississippi, where they were escorted and guarded by armed troops, sixteen patrol cars, and an airplane.

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