jim ruth

The year was 1961 and the Civil Rights Movement was already in full swing. Lead by the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), on May 4, seven Black people and six white people set out on a bus trip from Washington, D.C. to New Orleans, La. to test the Supreme Court’s 1960 decision that interstate passengers had a right to be served without discrimination. A similar movement in … [Read more...] about Freedom Riders, NAACP honor bus driver Jim Ruth