A bus fire-bombed its riders temporarily trapped inside by a segregationist mob then. They were attacked and the bus was set on fire.
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Likewise who bombed the Freedom Riders bus.
Freedom riders bus on fire. Passengers escaped without serious injury. SNCC student Hank Thomas was beaten over the head with a. A bus fire bombed its riders temporarily trapped inside by.
They fled when the fuel tank began to explode. Those brave men and women will be honored at a lighting ceremony. Freedom Rides organized to test the validity and enforcement of segregation on the nations new interstate system which was subject to federal oversight.
A Freedom Rider bus went up in flames in May 1961 when a firebomb was tossed through a window near Anniston Ala. The attackers pelted the vehicle with rocks and. On May 14 1961 Mothers Day the Greyhound Bus carrying Freedom Riders was attacked and fire-bombed by by members of the Ku Klux Klan KKK near Anniston Alabama.
After local Klan members. The mob beat the riders after they got out. Janie Forsyth McKinney was twelve years old when the Freedom Riders came through her hometown of Anniston Alabama on May 14 1961.
The Freedom Riders escaped the bus as it burst into flames only to be brutally beaten by members of the surrounding mob. With the cooperation of the cops on May 15 Mothers Day a mob of more than 100 Klansmen ambush the Riders in Anniston AL attacking the Greyhound bus smashing the windows and slashing the tires. The images that survive from the Freedom Riders stop in Anniston Alabama tell a gruesome story of human brutality.
On May 20 1961 the Freedom Riders were attacked by a local mob at the Montgomery Greyhound Bus Station in Montgomery Alabama. The fire-bombed bus at Anniston Alabama produced thick smoke that filled the cabin choking escaping riders. Sources disagree but either an exploding fuel tank or an undercover state investigator who was brandishing a revolver caused the mob to retreat and the riders escaped the bus.
The bus tries to flee but the attackers give chase halting it on the outskirts of town then setting it on fire. The Freedom Riders escaped but the image of the burned-out bus was seen all around the world in press coverage. The images that survive from the Freedom Riders stop in Anniston tell a gruesome story of human brutality.
The Freedom Riders National Monument opened last month just in time for the 60th anniversary. A group of 200 White people set a bus on fire in Anniston. And when the riders took another bus to.
When a member of the mob tossed a firebomb through a broken bus window others in the mob attempted to trap the passengers inside the burning vehicle by barricading the door. Mothers Day May 14 1961 as Greyhound bus carrying Freedom Riders and other passengers burns after being fire-bombed by white mob that attacked the bus and some riders near Anniston Alabama. Freedom Riders Jimmy McDonald left and Hank Thomas and regular passenger Roberta Holmes sit in front of the burned-out shell of a Freedom Bus on May 14 1961.
As the bus burned the mob held the doors shut intending to burn the riders to death. Freedom Riders Facts - 14. On Sunday May 14 1961Mothers Dayscores of angry white people blocked a Greyhound bus carrying black and white passengers through rural Alabama.
The Heinous 1961 KKK Attack on the Freedom Riders On May 4 1961 a bus carrying black and white anti-segregation activists called the Freedom. May 14 1961. Violence and trouble met the Freedom Riders in Alabama.
The riders were traveling from Washington DC throughout the south to New Orleans where they encountered a racist mob at Annistons Greyhound station. Gaffneys bus wasnt spared either. Freedom Rider Hank Thomas shares his story of riding the bus from Anniston Alabama challenging the segregation laws at the timeSubscribe to TIME http.
The Freedom Riders refused to exit the vehicle but received no aid from two watching highway patrolmen. On this Mothers Day a group of Freedom Riders traveling by bus from Washington DC to New Orleans were met by a white mob in Anniston Alabama.
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