![]() ![]() The driver managed to drive the bus a few miles out of town. The Greyhound riders were met in Anniston by a mob whose members threw rocks and slashed the bus’s tires. When the activists reached Alabama on May 14 the attacks intensified. The Freedom Riders continued, however, and crossed Georgia without incident. They encountered violence for the first time at the bus terminal in Rock Hill, South Carolina when several young white males beat black riders who attempted to use a “whites only” restroom. The Freedom Riders left Washington on and traveled without incident across Virginia and North Carolina. This time CORE organized a dozen activists who were paired into two interracial sets of Freedom Riders who would travel on Greyhound and Trailways buses, respectively, from Washington, D.C. ![]() Virginia which reiterated the earlier ruling prohibiting racial segregation in interstate transportation. Recalling that failed effort 15 years earlier, James Farmer organized a new generation of black and white activists to travel on interstate buses to test the 1960 United States Supreme Court decision in Boynton v. When most of the demonstrators were arrested in North Carolina, the police effectively aborted the Journey of Reconciliation. White southern segregationists resisted CORE’s efforts. the Commonwealth of Virginia which outlawed segregation in interstate travel. They used as their model CORE’s 1946 “Journey of Reconciliation” where an interracial group rode interstate buses to test the enforcement of the Supreme Court’s decision in Morgan v. Following the momentum of student-led sit-ins in Greensboro, North Carolina and Nashville, Tennesssee in early 1960, an interracial group of activists, led by Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) Executive Director James Farmer, decided to continue to challenge Jim Crow segregation in the South by organizing “freedom rides” through the region. ![]()
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