Freedom Riders: Then
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Anonymous/APA group of Freedom Riders from Tennessee stands at the door of a Greyhound bus in Birmingham,Ala., waiting for a bus to leave for Montgomery on May 19, 1961. The Tennessee Board of Regents has changed its decision to deny honorary degrees to 14 students, at what is now called Tennessee State University, who were expelled for participating in Freedom Rides of the 1960s civil rights movement. The board voted unanimously on Friday, April 25, 2008, to change its March vote, which brought criticism from civil rights activists.
APFour of the nine reverse Freedom Riders board bus in New Orleans, en route for Boston and Concord, N.H. with one-way tickets paid for by the New Orleans Citizens Council, July 6, 1962. They are due to arrive in Boston on Sunday at 1:30 p.m. Bus driver is O.E. Coleman of Columbus, Ga.
Anonymous/APFreedom Riders are photographed at the bus station, in downtown Montgomery, Ala., in this 1961, file photo. The bus station, a civil rights era landmark, is sitting in disrepair in 2004 waiting for funding to become a museum.
JIM BOURDIER/APThe railroad tracks in the industrial area of Jackson, Miss., is seen, June 1963.
APFreedom Riders Levert Taylor, 20, and Glenda Jackson, both of Shreveport, La., are shown with policeman W. L. Copeland at Jackson, MS., Nov. 1, 1961, after their arrest on a breach of peace charge for refusing to move out of the white waiting room at a bus station there. Taylor and Miss Jackson were in Jackson to test the ICC desegregation ruling.