made the difference. she said, we will not allow violence to destroy nonviolence. this was 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 lewis could see hundreds of whites headed towards them with baseball bats, bricks, rocks. >> an angry mob just 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.