![]() “If you want to talk about heroism, consider the Black man who probably saved my life. “There was nothing particularly heroic in what I did,” he said. The mob beat him so badly that his suit was soaked in blood. I knew that whether I lived or died, I was going to be OK.” Īs the mob headed his way, Freedom Rider James Zwerg said he asked for God to be with him, and “I felt absolutely surrounded by love. “Then they turned on my colleagues and started beating us and beat us so severely, we were left bloodied and unconscious in the streets of Montgomery,” Lewis recalled. Īfter beating on the riders, the mob turned on reporters and then Justice Department official John Seigenthaler, who was beaten unconscious and left in the street after helping two riders. “An angry mob came out of nowhere, hundreds of people, with bricks and balls, chains,” Lewis recalled. Future Congressman John Lewis was among them. Both were attacked during the Freedom Rides.Ī white mob of more than 300, including Klansmen, attacked Freedom Riders at the Greyhound Bus Station in Montgomery, Alabama. In this 1961 photo, civil rights leader John Lewis, left, stands next to James Zwerg, a Fisk University student. If you have any other questions, contact Audience Development Director Lauchlin Fields.īy Jerry Mitchell, Mississippi Today May 20, 2023 You can only publish select stories individually - not as a collection.Our stories may appear on pages with ads, but not ads specifically sold against our stories.To learn more about our cartoon syndication services, click here. You cannot republish our editorial cartoons, photographs, illustrations or graphics without specific permission (contact our managing editor Kayleigh Skinner for more information).If you’re not able to add the byline, please include a line at the top of the story that reads: “This story was originally published by Mississippi Today” and include our website,. We prefer “Author Name, Mississippi Today” in the byline. If you share our stories on social media, please tag us in your posts using on Facebook and on Twitter.Any web site our stories appear on must include a contact for your organization.You can’t sell or syndicate our stories.You can’t edit our stories, except to reflect relative changes in time, location and editorial style. ![]() Editorial cartoons and photo essays are not included under the Creative Commons license and therefore do not have the "Republish This Story" button option.To republish online, simply click the button, copy the html code and paste into your Content Management System (CMS). Look for the "Republish This Story" button underneath each story. ![]() This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.Unless otherwise noted, you can republish most of Mississippi Today’s stories for free under a Creative Commons license. See, for example, the PBS Special airing, and the 2011 Jackson, Mississippi and Chicago gatherings of the Freedom Riders, and. ![]() See particularly the Proclamation by the then-Governor of Mississippi, Ronnie Musgrove, issued at the request of the 40th Anniversary Reunion Committee, based on a text prepared by the Chair of the Reunion, Carol Ruth Silver.Ĭontributions made on this web site are tax deductible and will be used for the 50th Anniversary Reunion of the Freedom Riders in 2011, and beyond, to honor the deeds and the memory of the Freedom Riders.įor the 2011 commemoration of the 50 years since the 1961 Freedom Rides, there are numerous web sites, blogs, videos, events, and activities. Freedom Rides in 2011, see other web sites (as below.)įor the 40th Anniversary Reunion of the Freedom Riders, this site preserves the history of, and the research prepared for, the 40th Reunion, held at Tougaloo College, Jackson Mississippi, on Veterans Day, November, 2001 (just days after the 9-11-2001 terrorist attach on the US World Trade Center.)
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