and a bus driver boycott forced the Freedom Riders to fly to New Orleans. But the news and images of the Alabama attacks, including a single photo from the Birmingham bus station melee that ...

The group later encountered a violent Ku Klux Klan mob in Birmingham, Alabama. Several Riders were seriously injured, and media reports of the attacks spread quickly. Alabama Gov. John Patterson ...

Tissue damage from the beating in Birmingham created ... Two years ago, speaking to Alabama high school students over Zoom, he discussed the Freedom Rides and their legacy with Eve Cole, the ...

The Freedom Riders were met with further violence when they passed into Alabama on May 14 ... the bus reached the terminal in Birmingham, where the riders found themselves unprotected by ...