Mickey Welsh/The Montgomery Advertiser/USA Today Network Terri Sewell were at the unveiling of the bus.Ī vintage suitcase with artifacts from the Freedom Riders sits aboard the restored Greyhound bus. was one of the student Freedom Riders attacked that same day at the Greyhound bus station, which is the home of the museum. Preserving this place helps bring to life a critical part of the civil rights story, and the role Montgomery and the state of Alabama played in it.”īernard Lafayette Jr. Jones, the commission’s executive director and state historic preservation officer, said in the release. “The Freedom Rides Museum is an integral part of this important story,” Lisa D. Their efforts helped pave the way for the Interstate Commerce Commission to enforce the ruling a year later, as ordered by Attorney General Robert Kennedy. The Freedom Riders tested a 1960 Supreme Court ruling that segregation in interstate bus and rail travel was unconstitutional.
Lewis and other riders were attacked and beaten by segregationists in Montgomery, Alabama, on May 20, 1961. John Lewis, one of the 13 riders attacked in Alabama, said in 2001. And when the riders took another bus to Birmingham, they were met by a mob who assaulted them with stones, baseball bats and more. A group of 200 White people set a bus on fire in Anniston. Violence and trouble met the Freedom Riders in Alabama. checks out the restored Greyhound bus as it is unveiled.
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