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Freedom Riders Protesting segregation
in Interstate Travel
Traveling from D.C. to New Orleans
May 14-buses split in Alabama
Buses firebombed in Anniston
Birmingham-the police were given the day off by Governor George Wallace
When you go looking for trouble you usually find it…You just can guarantee the safety of a fool and that’s what these people are…fools.
Nicknamed “Bombingham” Since 1957 over 50 cross
burnings and 18 bombings Police Commissioner
Eugene “Bull” Connor arrests 2200 over 5 weeks
Protest w/ Children Fire Hoses, Electric Cattle
Prods, Attack Dogs
We preach freedom around the world, and we mean it, and we cherish our freedom here at home; but are we to say to the world, and, much more importantly, for each other, that this is a land of the free except for the Negroes; that we have no second-class citizens except Negroes; that we have no class or caste system, no ghettos, no master race, except with respect to Negroes?