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In answer to SNCC's call, Freedom Riders from across the Eastern US joined John Lewis and Hank Thomas, the two young SNCC members of the original Ride, who had remained in Birmingham. On May 19, they attempted to resume the ride, but, terrified by the howling mob surrounding the bus depot, the drivers refused.
In 1961, Lewis became one of the 13 original Freedom Riders. [ 5 ] [ 30 ] The group of seven blacks and six whites planned to ride on interstate buses from Washington, D.C. to New Orleans to challenge the policies of Southern states along the route that had imposed segregated seating on the buses, which violated federal policy for interstate ...
Lewis was one of the original 13 Freedom Riders. While in college, he participated in sit-ins at segregated restaurants in Nashville . These sit-ins inspired others throughout the country to initiate sit-ins to protest segregation at lunch counters.
Lewis was one of the original Freedom Riders who rode segregated buses in the 1960s to protest racial segregation in the South. He served as chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating ...
Solemn crowds watch as Lewis, who died earlier this month at the age of 80, is borne by caisson over Edmund Pettus Bridge. ... He was one of the original Freedom Riders in 1961, taking buses from ...
The Nashville Student Movement was key in establishing leadership in the Freedom Riders. [ 2 ] Members of the Nashville Student Movement, who went on to lead many of the activities and create and direct many of the strategies of the 1960s Civil Rights Movement, included Diane Nash , Bernard Lafayette , James Bevel , John Lewis , C. T. Vivian ...
On April 9, 1947, a group of eight white men and eight Black men began the first “freedom ride” to challenge laws that mandated segregation on buses in defiance of the 1946 U.S. Supreme Court ...
Diane Nash, of the Nashville Student Movement (and a member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee) and others were undeterred, and 21 young students, [9] including John Lewis, took the place of the original riders for a leg of the Freedom Ride to Montgomery (the ultimate destination was Jackson, Mississippi).