Greyhound Bus Unveiled

      A fully-restored circa 1958 Greyhound bus, the kind that carried Civil Right's Era Freedom Riders to the South, has been delivered to the Montgomery Freedom Rides Museum.

 

     That's where college-aged freedom riders were beaten while Montgomery police looked the other way. 60 years ago today.

     But this time the Montgomery Police were escorting the restored bus for today's unveiling.

I was on-hand when the bus was delivered late last week, as well as at today's unveiling ceremony.

 

Photographer Jacque Chandler is front right, Museum Site Director Dorothy Walker in back left, with friends and staff of the Museum in this photo taken moments after the restored bus was taken off the trailer that carried it from Minneapolis to Montgomery.

    Want to see what the bus looked like BEFORE restoration? Watch this report I produced two years ago as the bus was loaded on a trailer to carry it to the restoration company.