ONLINE RESOURCES
Freedom Rides Bike Ride - Celebrating the Civil Rights Heritage of Montgomery, Alabama
“Freedom Riders”—an online PBS Documentary
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/freedomriders/rides/
History.com – Freedom Rides
http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/freedom-rides
Mississippi State Penitentiary (Parchman) Photo Collections
http://mdah.state.ms.us/arrec/digital_archives/series/parchman
Worse Than Slavery: Parchman Farm and the Ordeal of Jim Crow Justice by David M. Oshinsky
A review by Robert M. Goldman (Virginia Union University).
https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=931
Youtube clip of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. speaking in First Baptist Church in Montgomery on Sunday, May 21, 1961 during the Freedom Rides.
Youtube clip of Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. speaking in First Baptist Church in Montgomery on Sunday, May 21, 1961 during the Freedom Rides.
Interview of Freedom Riders Dr. Bernard Lafayette and Mr. James Zwerg by DemocracyNow in 2011.
The Freedom Rides of 1961, Moments in Civil Rights History with D’Army Bailey
BOOKS
Breach of Peace: Portraits of the 1961 Mississippi Freedom Riders by Eric Etheridge
Dividing Lines: Municipal Politics and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Montgomery, Birmingham, and Selma by J. Mills Thornton III dom Riders: A Primary Source Exploration of the Struggle for Racial Justice by Heather E. Schwartz
Freedom Riders: John Lewis and Jim Zwerg on the Front Lines of the Civil Rights Movement by Ann Bausum
In Peace and Freedom: My Journey in Selma by Bernard LaFayette, Jr. and Kathryn Lee Johnson
Judge Frank M. Johnson, Jr: A Biography by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Just a Neighbor: A Child’s Memoir of the Civil Rights Movement by Valda Harris Montgomery
Lay Bare the Heart by James L. Farmer, Jr.
March: Book One by Andrew Aydin and John Lewis
March: Book Two by Andrew Aydin and John Lewis
Taming the Storm: The Life and Times of Judge Frank M. Johnson, Jr. and the South's Fight over Civil Rights by Jack Bass
The Judge: The Life and Opinions of Alabama's Frank M. Johnson, Jr. by Frank Sikora
The Politics of Injustice: The Kennedys, the Freedom Rides, and the Electoral Consequences of a Moral Compromise by David Niven
The Story of the Civil Rights Freedom Rides in Photographs by David Aretha
Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement by John Lewis
Worse than Slavery: Parchman Farm and the Ordeal of Jim Crow Justice by David M. Oshinsky
FREEDOM RIDES MUSEUM
“If not us, then who? If not now, then when? ...Will someone else's children have to risk their lives instead of us risking ours?”
Freedom Rider John Lewis, May 1961
Learn how 21 young people helped change our nation’s history using nonviolent protest. Black and white, male and female, none of them were older than 21. They stepped off of a bus at this station on May 20, 1961. They knew they might be met with violence, and they were. They had written out wills and said goodbye to loved ones. Their goal was to help end racial segregation in public transportation and they did. This new museum explores a compelling American story. It uses artworks as well as quotes, photographs and architectural elements.