>> diane nash made the line that made the difference. >> she said we will not allow to destroy non-violence. this is the test. ten of the kids said we will go tonight and that's the stuff that makes you free. that's the stuff that is freedom. >> a group of them got on a bus in birmingham. when the bus pulled into the montgomery station, john louis could see hundreds of whites headed towards them with baseball bats, bricks, rocks. >> an angry mob came out of nowhere. they started beating the freedom riders. i was hit with a wooden crate. beaten, left lying in a pool of blood.