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The Freedom Ride left Washington DC on May 4, 1961. It was scheduled to arrive in New Orleans on May 17, the seventh anniversary of the Brown decision. Unlike the original Journey of Reconciliation, the Freedom Ride met little resistance in the upper South.
Freedom Rider John Lewis was savagely beaten in Rock Hill, South Carolina, on this day, when the Freedom Ride, which began on May 4, 1961, stopped in the city. His assailant was a KKK member named Elwin Wilson.