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Credit: Birmingham Civil Rights Institute
Bus attack in Anniston, AL
Freedom Rider Hank Thomas holds an oxygen mask after his bus is attacked outside Anniston, AL.
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Bus Attacked in Alabama
Freedom Rider Hank Thomas (left) stands with a state trooper and other riders after being attacked by a mob outside Anniston, AL in May 1961.
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Bus Attacked in Alabama
Freedom Riders gather with authorities alongside their burning bus after a mob attack outside Anniston, AL
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Bus attack in Anniston, AL
Freedom Rider Hank Thomas holds an oxygen mask after his bus is attacked outside Anniston, AL.
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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.
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Hank Thomas
On meeting white American University students
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Hank Thomas
On the Freedom Riders' dress code
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Hank Thomas
On traveling in the Jim Crow South
