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HILLSBOROUGH, N.C. (AP) — Legendary civil rights leader Bayard Rustin and three other men who were sentenced to work on a chain gang in North Carolina after they launched the
Orange County's judicial system formally vacated charges against four civil rights activists in the 1947 Journey of Reconciliation.
'We failed these men,' said Superior Court Judge Allen Baddour, who presided over the special session and at one point paused to gather himself after becoming emotional
On April 9, 1947, a group of eight white men and eight Black men began the first “freedom ride” to challenge laws that mandated segregation on buses in defiance of the 1946 U.S. Supreme Court Morgan v. Virginia ruling declaring segregation on interstate travel unconstitutional.
Mr Rustin was one of the eight ‘Freedom Riders’ who challenged segregation laws in a bus ride across the United States.