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On this day in 1961

By Jerry Mitchell,

2024-05-23

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MAY 23, 1961

Days after a violent attack by a white mob, civil rights leaders James Farmer, John Lewis, Ralph Abernathy and Martin Luther King Jr. announced at a news conference in Montgomery, Alabama, that the Freedom Rides would continue. Lewis was wearing bandages from the beating he received in Montgomery.

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