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On May 6–16, 2011, 40 college students from across the United States embarked on a bus ride from Washington, D.C., to New Orleans, retracing the original route of the Freedom Riders. [142] The 2011 Student Freedom Ride, which was sponsored by PBS and American Experience, commemorated the 50th anniversary of the original Freedom Rides ...
John Lewis: From Freedom Rider to Congressman by Christine M. Hill, (Enslow Publishers, Inc., 2002) ISBN 0-7660-1768-0. A biography of John Lewis written for juvenile readers. Freedom Riders: John Lewis and Jim Zwerg on the Frontlines of the Civil Rights Movement by Ann Bausum, (National Geographic Society, 2006) ISBN 0-7922-4173-8.
The Freedom Riders are arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, and spend 40 to 60 days in Parchman Penitentiary. [12] May 17 – Nashville students, coordinated by Diane Nash, John Lewis, and James Bevel of the Nashville Student Movement, take up the Freedom Ride, signaling the increased involvement of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee ...
A hero and prominent leader of the Civil Rights Movement, Lewis was a lifelong Democrat who championed social issues and equality. Lewis was one of the original Freedom Riders who rode segregated ...
The Big Six—Martin Luther King Jr., James Farmer, John Lewis, A. Philip Randolph, Roy Wilkins and Whitney Young—were the leaders of six prominent civil rights organizations who were instrumental in the organization of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in 1963, at the height of the Civil Rights Movement in the United States.
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 ...
Charles Person, one of the original 13 Freedom Riders, commented from his Atlanta home, April 29, 2021: "Well there's amazement, because of the progress we've made and some disappointment because ...
Zwerg participated in a one-semester student exchange program in January 1961 at Nashville's Fisk University, a predominantly black school. [1] At Fisk, Zwerg met John Lewis , who was active in the Civil Rights Movement, and was immediately impressed with the way Lewis handled himself and his commitment to the movement. [ 1 ]