Bettmann / Corbis On Sunday, May 14, 1961—Mother's Day—scores of angry white ... riders to escape the inferno. Even then some were pummeled with baseball bats as they fled. A few hours later ...

The Freedom Riders History In the spring of 1961, black and white civil rights activists rode buses to protest the segregationist policies of the Deep South (Marian Holmes, Brian Wolly, Photos ...

In August 1961, she married fellow Freedom Rider Paul Brooks. They were later active in the Mississippi ... "CORE would be sending an integrated team-black and white together-from the nation's ...

despite a Supreme Court ruling in 1960 that said segregated public buses were unconstitutional. The Freedom Riders consisted ...