A Freedom Rider remembers: 50 years later, an Amherst woman still feels the sting of a Mississippi policeman’s blows

By BEN STORROW | May 14, 2011 | The Bulletin, Amherst MA

“…Over 150 Freedom Riders — protesters, both black and white — attempted to integrate the bus routes of the American South in the summer of 1961…”

http://www.amherstbulletin.com/story/id/205699/

 

 

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