60 years ago today, eighteen Freedom Riders left for New Orleans from Washington, D.C. to desegregate the South's Jim Crow interstate buses.
Here are some of those who were arrested.
Hank Thomas, Washington, D.C., 19
John Lewis, Troy, Alabama, 21.
James Farmer, New York City, 41
Thomas, Lewis, and Farmer were part of the original 18 Freedom Riders, which also included James Peck, Ed Blankenheim, Walter Bergman, Benjamin Elton Cox, Charles Person, Frances Bergman, Genevieve Hughes and Jimmy McDonald, and others
Ruby Doris Smith Robinson, Atlanta, 19
Helen O'Neal McCray, Clarksdale, Mississippi, 20
Margaret Leonard, New Orleans, 19
Hezekiah Watkins, Jackson, Mississippi, 13
Julia Aaron, New Orleans, 20
C.T. Vivian, Nashville, 36
Rita Carter, Berkeley, 18
Peter Stoner, Chicago, 22
Bernard Lafayette, Tampa, 20
Miller Green, Jackson, 18
Kredelle Petway, Montgomery, 20
Carol Silver, New York City, 22
LeRoy Glenn Wright, Nashville, 19
Catherine Burks, Birmingham, 21
Joan Trumpauer, Arlington, Virginia, 19
Stokely Carmichael, The Bronx, 19
Jean Thompson, New Orleans, 19
Dion Diamond, Petersburg, Virginia, 19
Ed Kale, Grangeville, Idaho, 24
Gwendolyn Greene, Washington, DC, 19
James Lawson, Nashville, 32
Gordon Harris, Rochester, 23
Frances Wilson, Nashville, 23
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