FREEDOM RIDERS ATTACKED BY SEGREGATIONISTS IN MONTGOMERY
Montgomery, Alabama (JFK+50) On May 20, 1961, a bus load of Freedom Riders* were attacked by 300 segregationists at the Greyhound Bus Station here in Montgomery.
The attackers were armed with clubs and metal pipes. Two of the bus riders who were most seriously injured were Jim Swerg and John Lewis.
From his hospital bed, Jim Swerg said...
"Segregation must be stopped."
*Freedom Riders were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated South beginning in 1961 to challenge non-enforcement of USSC rulings that segregation on public buses is unconstitutional.
SOURCE
"Freedom Riders Welcomed By Violence in Montgomery, Alabama 52 Years Ago Today," JFK+50, May 20, 2013, www.jfk50.blogspot.com/
