Driver for 1961 Freedom Riders, Herbert Young, dies
Herbert Young was 25 in 1961 when he bused Freedom Riders through Alabama’s capital city where an angry mob confronted them.
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Herbert Young was 25 in 1961 when he bused Freedom Riders through Alabama’s capital city where an angry mob confronted them.
Young, who died on Jan. 2, helped integrate the city's transit system and was the Montgomery Police Department's first Black deputy marshal.