Saw Bull Connor. William Harbour, Freedom Rider: We got on the outside, they had two police cruisers and a limousine, loaded us up, and start driving, 1:00 in the morning.

At her home in Center Point, AL in 2011, Catherine Burks-Brooks displays the photo taken at the time of her arrest as a freedom rider in May 1961. By . ... (Bull) Connor on the morning of May 18 ...

May 4 marked the 60th Anniversary of the first group of Freedom Riders setting off on passenger buses from Washington, D.C., destined for New Orleans.

At 4:15 that afternoon, the bus reached the terminal in Birmingham, where the riders found themselves unprotected by commissioner Eugene “Bull” Connor’s police force. Mr.

Catherine Burks-Brooks, who as a 21-year-old Freedom Rider was among a small group of Nashville students who kept the movement to desegregate public transportation in the South going after its ...

At 4:15 that afternoon, the bus reached the terminal in Birmingham, where the riders found themselves unprotected by commissioner Eugene “Bull” Connor’s police force. Mr.