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In Focus: Freedom Riders, Then and Now

By David Schonauer   Wednesday May 23, 2018

For seven months in 1961, hundreds of black and white volunteers occupied segregated areas in train and bus stations to compel the federal government enforce anti-discrimination laws. Many were beaten and arrested. More than 300 mug shots taken of these so-called Freedom Riders in Jackson, Mississippi, are now featured in …

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