Catherine Burks-Brooks, 83, Freedom Rider Who Had the Last Word, Dies

She was among a small group of students who restarted the Freedom Rides after the first attempt ended in violence and nearly destroyed the movement.

...I couldn’t let old Bull (Connor) have the last word,” she told The Tennessean in 2013. “I told the Bull, I hollered it out, that we would see him back in Birmingham by high noon!” Her inspiration, she said later, was the westerns she liked to watch.