ANNISTON, Ala. (AP) — A new exhibit at the recently opened Freedom Riders National Monument will recall the experiences of the people who traveled the South in buses 60 years ago to test racial segregation.
The exhibition, called “Freedom Riders,” will open on Saturday at the monument, located at the old bus station in Anniston, where Freedom Riders were stopped during their journey in 1961 and attacked by a white mob.
The new exhibit, funded with a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, includes news coverage and photographs from the Freedom Rides, according to a statement from the National Park Service, which operates the monument. It was put together by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History and PBS’s history series, “American Experience.”
Intended to test implementation of court orders outlawing racial segregation in interstate transportation, the Freedom Rides began in Washington, D.C. on public buses that traversed the South. Violence in Anniston and Birmingham, where participants were beaten, shocked the nation and brought about federal intervention.
Established in 2017, the Anniston monument opened last month after years of work.
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