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  2. Anniston and Birmingham bus attacks - Wikipedia

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    Birmingham activist Fred Shuttlesworth, who sheltered the Freedom Riders following the attacks. Photograph taken in 2002. After receiving medical treatment, the Freedom Riders and the accompanying journalists were eventually reunited at Shuttlesworth's house, which doubled as a headquarters for the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights ...

  3. Charles Person, youngest Freedom Rider who faced brutal ... - AOL

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    Charles Person, the youngest member of the original Freedom Riders who faced racial violence to challenge segregation in interstate travel, died Jan. 8 in Fayetteville, Georgia. He was 82. In 1961 ...

  4. Charles Person - Wikipedia

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    Charles most recently established the Freedom Riders Training Academy, a comprehensive curriculum on nonviolent resistance. The program, co-founded by Pete Conroy, of the Freedom Riders Park Board, was designed to educate individuals about the principles of peaceful demonstration and the lasting significance of First Amendment rights ...

  5. Freedom Riders - Wikipedia

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    While in Jackson, Freedom Riders received support from local grassroots civil rights organization Womanpower Unlimited, which raised money and collected toiletries, soap, candy and magazines for the imprisoned protesters. Upon Freedom Riders' release, Womanpower members would provide places for them to bathe while offering them clothes and food.

  6. Freedom riders' 1947 convictions vacated in North Carolina

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    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 ...

  7. Freedom riders’ 1947 convictions vacated in North Carolina

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    Legendary civil rights leader Bayard Rustin and three other men who were sentenced to work on a chain gang in The post Freedom riders’ 1947 convictions vacated in North Carolina appeared first ...

  8. Joan Trumpauer Mulholland - Wikipedia

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    Joan Trumpauer Mulholland (born September 14, 1941) is an American civil rights activist who was active in the 1960s. She was one of the Freedom Riders who was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi in 1961, and was confined for two months in the Maximum Security Unit of the Mississippi State Penitentiary (known as "Parchman Farm"). [1]

  9. James Zwerg - Wikipedia

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    There is a reference to Zwerg in a scene of the 1961 Soviet film Kogda derev'ya byli bol'shimi (Когда деревья были большими) (English: When the Trees Were Tall) where Inna Gulaya is an article from a U.S. newspaper describing a Freedom Riders demonstration where Zwerg: "was thrown off the bus and his face was smashed ...