Exhibition Commemorates Freedom Rides
BIRMINGHAM, AL - The Birmingham Civil Rights Institute (BCRI) presents a new photo exhibition called ÂÂgCourage Under Fire: The 1961 Burning of the Freedom Riders Bus,ÂÂh to the public March 15 through May 22, 2011. The photographs, taken by Anniston Star reporter Joseph Postiglione highlight the horrors and injustices of the attacks on Greyhound and Trailways buses when interracial groups of passengers rode from Washington, D.C., to the Deep South.
The Freedom Riders were on a journey sponsored by the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), a human rights organization dedicated to peaceful, nonviolent protests against injustice. They met resistance in other southern states, but the violence they encountered in Anniston and Birmingham made history.
