Freedom Riders Arriving in Alabama

Freedom Riders arriving at Birmingham, AL bus station in 1961. Reverend Fred L. Shuttlesworth escorts Catherine Burks-Brooks, John Lewis, and other Freedom Riders.

Freedom Riders in Birmingham

Freedom Riders at the home of Dr. Richard Harris after the church siege in Birmingham, AL. Included are Lucretia Collins (center), James Farmer (far right) and John Lewis (ground, right).

The original Freedom Riders

The original Freedom Riders: Front, left to right: Joe Perkins, Charles Person, Frances Bergman, Genevieve Hughes, and Jimmy MacDonald; Back, left to right: John Lewis, Jim Peck, Ed Blankenheim, Hank Thomas, Walter Bergman, James Farmer. Not pictured: Rev. Benjamin Elton Cox, and Albert Bigelow.

John Lewis

On traveling in the South in 1960

John Lewis

On the Freedom Ride's accomplishments

Catherine Burks-Brooks

On racist treatment in the South

Catherine Burks-Brooks

On deciding to join the Freedom Rides

Catherine Burks-Brooks

On being expelled from Tennessee State

Vivian and Nash march in Nashville

C.T. Vivian and Diane Nash lead a demonstration march to City Hall in Nashville, TN.

C.T. Vivian

C.T. Vivian with National Guardsmen on bus from Birmingham, AL to Jackson, MS.

C.T. Vivian

On the impact of employing nonviolence

C.T. Vivian

On why Civil Rights activism increased in the 1960s.

C.T. Vivian

On the Kennedys' response to the Freedom Rides

C.T. Vivian

On Robert Kennedy's request for a cooling off period

William Harbour

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

Freedom Riders in Birmingham

Freedom Riders pose in front of a Greyhound bus in Birmingham, AL while waiting to depart for New Orleans. Included are (top, left to right) Charles Person, James Peck, Ben Cox and (front, left to right) Ed Blankenheim and Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth.