Video: 'The Heinous 1961 KKK Attack on the Freedom Riders'

(Mother’s Day, Sunday, May 14, 1961, shortly after 1:00 p.m. CDT;  part of the Civil Rights Movement) — A group of civil rights activists known as the Freedom Riders, traveling by Greyhound bus from Washington, D.C., to New Orleans, were met by a white mob today in Anniston, Alabama.
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