Freedom Riders morph into Freedom Readers

Dear Editor,Sixty-five years ago, almost exactly at this time of year, seven Black and six white activists calling themselves the Freedom Riders, left Washington, D.C. on a bus together, determined to sit together at lunch counters throughout the South.However, the Bull Connors of the South reacted so poorly to this peaceful way of making a point that the buses we...

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