Freedom Rides + 59 Years. Remembering.

     Today is the 59th anniversary of the attack on a bus filled with Civil Rights Freedom Riders at the Greyhound station in Montgomery. (Like almost everything else these days, the station site is closed because of Covid19.)

     The station is now a museum about those young people who rode buses from the North to the South to help integrate public transit systems across the region.

Montgomery racists attack Freedom Riders. Where are the attackers now?

     The police knew the klan planned to attack the bus, and told them they would hold back fifteen minutes to give the KKK a chance to do their damage unhindered.


     I was just a 10 year old boy living in New York City when the attack occurred, but I now

During my interview in the Freedom Rides Museum

have a 50 year media career and have lived in Alabama since 1976, so  I'm pleased to be one of twelve people interviewed for an online commemoration. My interview is about the impact media coverage of the attacks had on the movement, and on history. 
The 59th Anniversary special is called

"Travelin' Down Freedom's Mainline"

Museum Director Dorothy Walker being interviewed.

 

 

 

You can watch the interviews online HERE. (Note: Mine will be posted about 4:00pm today. 

Here is a link to it) but let me correct a slip of tongue. I said "Vance" when I meant "Vann" in discussing the long ago mayor of Birmingham. He was David Vann, and I liked him as mayor. Held a news conference every week regardless of what was happening. All questions taken.

Freedom Rides Museum We will be posting interviews on our page throughout the next two days...Wednesday and Thursday.)