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​National Center Celebrates 60th Anniversary of the Freedom Rides


 
The National Center for the  Study of Civil Rights and African-American Culture at Alabama State University marked the 60th anniversary of the Freedom Rides with a virtual celebration on May 27.
 
 
The program was in honor of the historic 1961 Freedom Riders, African-American and White civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated South to test the Supreme Court ruling that segregated public buses were unconstitutional.
 
When the group pulled up to the Greyhound Bus Station in Anniston, Alabama, on Mother’s Day, they were violently attacked, with the activists barely escaping. ASU alumnus, the Rev.  Ralph David Abernathy,  Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and other civil rights leaders announced the continuation of the rides from ASU’s First Baptist Church, where Abernathy was pastor, following the attack of the riders at the Greyhound terminal. ....

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