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 