Fifty years after the Aniston, Alabama attack on a bus that protesting Freedom Riders were on, the survivors give their personal accounts. They explain such emotional things as the sights of the tragedy, as well as trying to figure out the least painful way to die. The young Freedom Riders … Continue reading
Freedom Riders fifty years after the nonviolent movement tell their personal and powerful stories about the suffering they endured while peacefully protesting the fact that desegregation laws were not being enforced in the southern states. The stories show the courage that the Freedom Riders upheld and their determination to not … Continue reading
Janie Forsyth Mckinney tells a powerful story about witnessing a Freedom Rider’s bus being firebombed by local Klan members at just 12-years-old. McKinney describes people being mad at her as she bravely rushed to help the victims of the tragedy. The event occurred on May 14, 1961.
Hear a phone call between President Lyndon B. Johnson and J. Edgar Hoover where they address open investigations, the status of FBI informants, and three civil rights volunteers who disappeared from Mississippi in 1964.
