Freedom Riders, Montgomery, Alabama
Photograph
Freedom Riders, Montgomery, Alabama
1961: What a Year!
1961
Gelatin silver print
Image: 6 5/16 × 9 7/16 in. (16.1 × 23.9 cm)
Paper: 7 15/16 × 10 in. (20.2 × 25.4 cm)
Gift of Time-Life Books
1968.0184.0119
Inscriptions Typed in black ink on applied label, verso BC: 12/61 8) "FREEDOM RIDER": One of eleven whites and Negroes who rode \ together from Montgomery, Alabama, to Jackson, Mississippi, in order to \ put Federal anti-segregation rulings into effect, sleeps as an Alabama \ National Guardsman escorts her. Frequent arrests and occasional violence \ marked the rides, but for the first time many bus terminals of the "deep \ South" were integrated. \ Credit: Bruce Davidson © 1961 MAGNUM Photos
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