A scene from one panel on the Freedom Fighters Monument to be dedicated at the Northside Festival on April 29, 2017. (Photo credit: Jim Wallace)
Freedom Riders were arrested in Jackson, Miss., in May 1961 and hastily convicted of breach of peace.Credit...Mississippi Department of Archives and History
FREEDOM RIDERS
John Lewis, one of the original group of 13 Freedom Riders, was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in November 1986.
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