Bus carrying Freedom Riders is fire-bombed on Mother’s Day near Anniston, Alabama

May 14, 1961
Bus carrying Freedom Riders is fire-bombed on Mother’s Day near Anniston, Alabama

Whites burn a Freedom Riders' bus near Anniston, Alabama. As they attempted to escape, the group is attacked and beaten by men armed with clubs, bricks, iron pipes, and knives.

May

1961

Major Events

May 4, 1961
The Freedom Riders leave Washington, D.C. to challenge segregated travel facilities in the South

May 14, 1961
Bus carrying Freedom Riders is fire-bombed on Mother’s Day near Anniston, Alabama

May 17, 1961
Nashville Freedom Riders arrested while waiting for buses in Birmingham

May 21, 1961
After the first group of Freedom Riders is assaulted in Alabama, King addresses a mass rally in Mont

May 24, 1961
Freedom Riders leave Montgomery, arrive in Jackson and arrested

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