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Anniston to honor 60th anniversary of Freedom Rides in Alabama with 2-day celebration

Anniston to honor 60th anniversary of Freedom Rides in Alabama with 2-day celebration By Anthony Cook May 12, 2021 The history of the Freedom Rides in Anniston 60 years ago will be marked with events in the city this weekend. (Anthony Cook / Alabama NewsCenter and BCRI) Three of the original Freedom Riders plan to make another trip to the city of Anniston this weekend – this time to be honored in recognition of the 60 th anniversary of the historic rides. From May to September 1961, more than 60 Freedom Rides took place, during which more than 400 young Blacks and whites traveled shoulder to shoulder, challenging the Jim Crow transportation laws prohibiting Blacks and whites from sitting together on the bus. A Supreme Court ruling had struck down those laws, but cities across the South were ignoring it.

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Want to learn more about the Freedom Riders? These museums help tell the story

Want to learn more about the Freedom Riders? These museums help tell the story Nancy DeGennaro, Nashville Tennessean Replay Video UP NEXT On May 4, a new interactive exhibit a vintage Greyhound bus rolled into the Freedom Rides Museum in Montgomery, Alabama. For a decade, the museum has told the stories of the 400-plus men and women, Black and white, who boarded interstate buses headed south in the summer of 1961. Their goal was to compel leaders to enforce Supreme Court decisions banning segregation on buses and in transportation facilities throughout the United States. © Mickey Welsh / Advertiser Freedom Rider Bernard Lafayette, Jr., speaks as a restored vintage Greyhound bus is unveiled at the Freedom Rides Museum in Montgomery, Ala., during a commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the Freedom Rides on Tuesday May 4, 2021.

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U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, actress Jane Fonda and attorney Gloria Allred were among the inductees at the National Women’s Hall of Fame on Saturday. The Class of 2019 inducted into the hall in upstate New York also included activist Angela Davis , attorney Sarah Deer, fashion designer Diane von Furstenberg , retired Air Force fighter pilot Nicole Malachowski,. Mayor Jan 7, 2019 The Birmingham Civil Rights Institute in Alabama is getting withering criticism on social media after rescinding its decision to honor political activist and scholar Angela Davis. Davis is a Birmingham native who has spent decades fighting for civil rights. She was an active member of the Black Panther Party, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and Communist Party USA. She’s also an.

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PEACE Birmingham Celebrates 25 Years Uniting Diverse Teens

By Michael Sznajderman Alabama NewsCenter For 25 years, small groups of Birmingham-area teens, from different races and different backgrounds, have met – one Sunday afternoon each month – to talk about issues of privilege, prejudice and social inequity. The gatherings go by the name PEACE Birmingham – for “People Engaged in A Cultural Exchange.” It’s a quiet initiative that many people in the Birmingham area don’t know about. But for the students and adults who’ve participated over the past quarter century, the impact has been life-altering. “It is such a great program,” said Seth Green, who participated in PEACE Birmingham some 20 years ago while in high school. Now a senior engineer at Alabama Power, Green recently became reengaged in the initiative as a volunteer adviser.

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