11-156 Garand Picture of the Day

[Mark in Rochester]

National Guard soldiers lining street re Freedom Riders between Montgomery, AL & Jackson MS.
Location: US
Date taken: 1961
Photographer: Paul Schutzer

On Wednesday morning, May 24, Freedom Riders boarded buses for the journey to Jackson, Mississippi.[15] Surrounded by Highway Patrol and the National Guard, the buses arrived in Jackson without incident, and the riders were immediately arrested when they tried to use the white-only facilities at the depot.[16] In Montgomery, Freedom Riders including Yale University chaplain William Sloane Coffin, Gaylord Brewster Noyce,[17] Shuttlesworth, Abernathy, Wyatt Tee Walker, and others were similarly arrested for violating local segregation ordinances.


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