Obit: Co-Founder of Freedom Rides

The New York Times reports:

Gordon Carey, a white civil rights worker who was a major if largely unheralded force in two of the most significant nonviolent actions of the civil rights movement — the lunch-counter sit-ins and the Freedom Rides — died on Nov. 27 in Arlington, Va. He was 89.

His daughter Ramona Carey said he had been in declining health in recent months and died of pneumonia in a hospital.

 ...when Mr. Carey and a Black colleague, Tom Gaither, were stranded during a snowstorm on a bus on the New Jersey Turnpike for 12 hours, they conceived the idea for the Freedom Rides.

 

 

 

 

Visit The Freedom Rides Museum in Montgomery to explore that part of the Civil Rights Movement.