Deepest condolences on passing of Bernard Lafayette, a true hero of the civil rights movement. From Freedom Rides to fighting for voting rights, his courage/commitment to nonviolent change inspired generations. Rest in power, Dr. Lafayette.
#CivilRights #BernardLafayette #FreedomRides #RestInPower

( #JCKaelin: I chose him as my #CivilRights exemplar. )
#OTD #TDIH #January12, 1920: #BOTD: #HBD #JamesFarmer! #CORE #Big4 #Big6 #Heroes #AfricanAmericans #CivilRights #CivilRightsMovement #AntiRacism #Segregation #FreedomRiders #FreedomRides #CivilSky #BlackSky
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Waging A Good War: Raiding Behind Enemy Lines On The Freedom Rides (One in a series of posts about Thomas E. Ricks’ 2022 book, Waging a Good War: A Military History Of The Civil Rights Movement, 1954-68.) The Montgomery Bus Boycott involved most Black reside…

By contrast, for example, the #FreedomRides started with about a dozen people. But they were carefully recruited, well trained, and did extensive reconnaissance and preparation for their strategically well planned action. masscommons.wordpress.com/2025/10/10/w...

Proud to say met Charles Perkins (see 1965 #FreedomRides) when studying with Indigenous social work students in 70s. Aranda man.

Freedom Rider Talks Voting Rights and Being Jailed for Testing Segregation Laws in 1961 The Voting Rights Act, a crowning achievement of the civil rights movement, turns 60 this week. It’s not in good shape.

“In the spring of 1961, Black and white civil rights activists traveled together on public transportation, setting out on Freedom Rides, to test the segregation laws that defined the Jim Crow South.”
#VotingRights #TheVotingRightsAct
#FreedomRides

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(2) in a nonviolent fashion for people's rights. In his life (1940-2020) he fought and led the way for peaceful protest, freedom and justice and led by example in peace.
Make Good Trouble in his memory today.
#FreedomRides
#JohnLewis

Lennon/Ono Band - 'Instant Karma'
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#OTD #TDIH #May24, 1961 #FreedomRideToJackson ends with #FreedomRiders immediately arrested.
#FreedomRides #JacksonMississippi #CivilRightsMovement #AfricanAmericanCivilRightsMovement #Segregation #Desegregation #JimCrow
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#OTD #TDIH #May20, 1961: #CivilRightsMovement: #FreedomRides: #MontgomeryGreyhoundBusStationAttack #MontgomeryBusStationAttack occurs.
#FreedomRiders #AnnistonAlabama #CivilRightsMovement #KKK #Desegregation #JimCrow
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🎉 Today we celebrate the courageous #DianeNash. One of the founding members of #SNCC and a fearless strategist behind the #FreedomRides and #Selma campaigns, Nash showed the world what disciplined, loving resistance could do!

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#Movementhistory

#OTD #TDIH #May14, 1961: #CivilRightsMovement: #FreedomRides: #AnnistonBusBombing on #MothersDay by the #KKK! #AnnistonFirebombingOfFreedomRidersBus #FreedomRiders #AnnistonAlabama #CivilRightsMovement #KKK #Desegregation #JimCrow
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#OTD #TDIH #May4, 1961: #FreedomRiders: #FirstFreedomRide leaves #WashingtonDC for arrival in #NewOrleans on May 17.
#FreedomRides #AmericanCivilRightsMovement #AfricanAmericanCivilRightsMovement #Segregation #Desegregation #JimCrow
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#OTD #ThisDayInHistory #April15, 1960 #EllaBaker leads a #ShawUniversity conference that results in #SNCC, the #StudentNonviolentCoordinatingCommittee.
#CivilRightsMovement #DirectAction #FreedomRides #MarchOnWashington #FreedomSummer #SelmaMarches
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#JCKaelin: My #heroes! 💪
#OTD #TDIH #April9, 1947: The #JourneyOfReconciliation (The #FirstFreedomRide) begins.
#Nonviolence #CivilDisobedience #DirectAction #Segregation #JimCrow #CivilRightsMovment #AfricanAmericanCivilRightsMovment #FreedomRides
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If they try to sell the historic Montgomery bus station(freedom rides museum) along with other certain buildings. I’d be down to be a part of/donate to an LLC (co-ownership) fund to make sure that building is preserved as it should be. Is anything like this in the works? #freedomrides #civilrights

Honoring John Lewis. #books #BigSix #NashvilleSit-Ins #Read #FreedomRides

( #JCKaelin: I chose him as my #CivilRights exemplar.)
#OTD #TDIH #January12, 1920: #BOTD: #HBD #JamesFarmer! #CORE #Big4 #Big6 #Heroes #AfricanAmericans #CivilRights #CivilRightsMovement #AntiRacism #Segregation #FreedomRiders #FreedomRides
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