Day 8 — Anniston & Birmingham, Alabama
Where a mob firebombed a Freedom Riders bus on Mother’s Day, 1961.
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Anniston Anniston, AL, United States
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Day 9 — Nashville, Tennessee
Nashville Nashville, TN, United States -
Day 10 — Montgomery, Alabama
Montgomery Montgomery, AL, United StatesThe Freedom Rides Museum and the Dr. Richard Harris House.
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Day 11 — Selma, Alabama & Jackson, Mississippi
Selma Selma, AL, United StatesThe Edmund Pettus Bridge; the Medgar Evers Home Museum and the Fairgrounds, where riders were jailed in 1961.
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Day 12 — Baton Rouge & New Orleans, Louisiana
New Orleans New Orleans, LA, United StatesThe final stop, and the historic endpoint of the 1961 Freedom Rides — the destination the original riders never reached.