/ Mugshots of a group of Freedom Riders who were arrested and jailed in Jackson, Miss. 1961. Sixty years after the Freedom Riders began their journey into the South from the nation’s capital, Beverly Bassett belted out her favorite freedom song outside of the Greyhound bus station in Montgomery. “Ain’t gonna let segregation turn me around,” she sang with a slight growl in her voice. Now known as the Freedom Rides Museum, the bus station was one of the many stops the interracial group of civil rights activists made as they departed in 1961 to test the enforcement of an earlier