Description
In the summer of 1961, the Freedom Riders, a group of mostly young people, both black and white, including James Forman, risked their lives to challenge the system of segregation in interstate travel in the South. The University of Mississippi's Freedom riders oral history project includes interviews recorded in conjunction with the 40th anniversary of that summer.Record Contributed By
University of MississippiRecord Harvested From
Digital Library of GeorgiaKeywords
- African American Civil Rights Workers
- African Americans
- Alabama
- Anniston
- Arrest
- Brown, Oliver, 1918
- Bus Travel
- Chicago Defender
- Civil Rights
- Civil Rights Demonstrations
- Civil Rights Movements
- Civil Rights Workers
- Congress Of Racial Equality
- Discrimination
- Discrimination In Public Accommodations
- Ferguson, John H. (Judge)
- Flags
- Forman, James, 1928 2005
- Freedom Rides, 1961
- Georgia
- History
- Imprisonment
- Interviews
- Ku Klux Klan (1915)
- Lynching
- Mississippi
- Mississippi Freedom Project
- Moving Images
- Murder
- North Carolina
- Oral Histories
- Plessy, Homer Adolph
- Poll Tax
- Race Relations
- Reunions
- Segregation
- Segregation In Transportation
- Singing
- Southern States
- States
- Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)
- Topeka (Kan.). Board Of Education
- Trials, Litigation, Etc
- Unemployment And Poverty Action Committee
- United States
- United States. Civil Rights Act Of 1964
- United States. Interstate Commerce Commission
- United States. Voting Rights Act Of 1965
- Universities
- University Of Mississippi
- Violence
- Voter Registration
- We Shall Overcome