In remembrance of the death of Bob Marley 30 years ago (May 11, 1981), here’s a version of “No Woman, No Cry” recorded July 21, 1979 in at Harvard Stadium in Boston, Mass.
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Bob Marley, 1945-1981
Posted in Music with tags 1979, 1981, Bob Marley, Boston, Harvard, July 21, May 11, No Woman No Cry on May 12, 2011 by macmysteryThe Freedom Rides turn 50
Posted in History, Politics with tags 1961, Alabama, Anniston, Birmingham, bloody, Civil Rights Movement, Congress of Racial Equality, Freedom Riders, Freedom Rides, Georgia, Greyhound, Jackson, James Patterson, Jim Crow, John Lewis, justice, Justice Department, Ku Klux Klan, Louisiana, May 4, Mississippi, mob, Montgomery, New Orleans, North Carolina, Oprah Winfrey, PBS, public transportation, Robert Kennedy, Rock Hill, segregation, South, South Carolina, Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, Trailways, Virginia, Washington D.C., WGBH on May 4, 2011 by macmystery
A Greyhound bus that had carried Freedom Riders burns beside the highway on May 14, 1961 — Mother’s Day — in Anniston, Ala.
On this day, May 4, in 1961, 13 riders (seven blacks and six whites) set out from Washington D.C. on Greyhound and Trailways buses to the Deep South.
Their journey would become known as the Freedom Rides, and they — and many more after them — would become the Freedom Riders.
Raising Two Americans 