Freedom Riders on their way from New York to D.C., May 1961

ID: 4030 ~ Source: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
This file appears in: Civil Rights Tour: Protest - Freedom Riders
Freedom Riders on their way from New York to D.C., May 1961
This file appears in: Civil Rights Tour: Protest - Freedom Riders

The trip, organized by the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), was planned to test individual states’ compliance with the 1960 U.S. Supreme Court decision in Boynton v. Virginia that prohibited segregation in bus terminals and restaurants serving…