Freedom Rider Jim Zwerg talks about life after the beating he received in May 1961.

Octavia Geans Vivian, wife of Rev. C.T. Vivian, passed away on May 5, 2011, she was 83. As an author, scholar, activist, wife and mother Mrs. Vivian filled many roles in the Civil Rights Movement. Rev. Vivian says he married a soul mate, someone "as close to perfect as any human being I have ever known."

James Farmer, national director of the Congress of Racial Equality, sent a letter to John F. Kennedy on 26 April 1961 announcing the intention of fifteen CORE members to travel through out the South "testing every form of segregation met by the bus passenger."