Nashville Student Movement Freedom Riders

Students from the Nashville Student Movement return to Birmingham, Alabama after being driven by Commissioner Bull Connor to Ardmore, Alabama.

William Harbour

On Bull Connor driving Freedom Riders to the TN/AL border

The Governor

John Patterson, Governor of Alabama from 1958 to 1963, won election as a staunch segregationist. Patterson discusses his response to the Freedom Rides and his decision to refuse a phone call from President John F. Kennedy when the Freedom Riders encountered mob violence in Birmingham.