FTP, identify this group that protested segregation in 1961 by traveling through the South on buses.
John Patterson said of them that "when you go…looking for trouble, you usually find it," while the judge at their trial turned his back when their lawyer spoke. One told Robert Kennedy that "if we cooled off any more, we'd be in a deep freeze," and the beating of Jim Zwerg convinced Kennedy to dispatch federal marshals to protect them. Kennedy's intercession also forced Greyhound to transport them after a bombing, but most never reached New Orleans. FTP, identify this group that protested segregation in 1961 by traveling through the South on buses.
John Patterson said of them that "when you go…looking for trouble, you usually find it," while the judge at their trial turned his back when their lawyer spoke.
{Freedom Riders}