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Title: Freedom Riders
Identifier: e_frp_025
Creator: Associated Press (Photographer)
Dates: 1961-05-24
Resource: Freedom Riders press photographs album
Description: Caption from the Associated Press reads, "MORE FREEDOM RIDERS---A new busload of freedom riders including four white college professors and three Negro students, arrives in Montgomery today under guard of police and National Guard. Center with glasses is Rev. William S. Coffin Jr. At left partly hidden is Dr. David E. Swift, and behind him wearing glasses is Dr. John D. Maguire." (AP Wirephoto 1961)

Title: Freedom Riders
Identifier: e_frp_026
Creator: Associated Press (Photographer)
Dates: 1961-05-21
Resource: Freedom Riders press photographs album
Description: Caption from the Associated Press reads, "DEFENDANT---Robert M. Shelton, an Alabama Ku Klux Klan leader from Tuscaloosa, is one of several Klan defendants in a federal injunction issued last night against bus violence. Shelton, 31-year-old tire salesman, heads the Alabama Knights, Knights of the Ku Klux Klan Inc." (AP Wirephoto 1961

Title: Freedom Riders
Identifier: e_frp_028
Creator: Associated Press (Photographer)
Dates: 1961-05-24
Resource: Freedom Riders press photographs album
Description: Caption from the Associated Press reads, "SENDOFF---Rev. Martin Luther King, Negro integration leader, shakes hands with Paul Dietrich just before a bus of freedom riders left Montgomery today. Dietrich, white ministerial student from Virginia, joined the freedom riders here." (AP Wirephoto 1961)

Title: Freedom Riders
Identifier: e_frp_030
Creator: Associated Press (Photographer)
Dates: 1961-05-21
Resource: Freedom Riders press photographs album
Description: Caption from the Associated Press reads, "MARSHALS WATCH NEGRO CHURCH---Federal Marshals stand watch in Montgomery tonight at the Negro First Baptist Church as evening services start. The church, whose pastor is integration leader Rev. Ralph Abernathy, will be the scene tonight or a meeting or freedom riders to announce their future plans. Arrival of the biracial riders on a bus yesterday set off a riot." (AP Wirephoto 1961)

Title: Freedom Riders
Identifier: e_frp_031
Creator: Associated Press (Photographer)
Dates: 1961-05-21
Resource: Freedom Riders press photographs album
Description: Caption from the Associated Press reads, "MARSHALS GUARD NEGRO CHURCH---A group of U.S. Marshals stands outside Negro church in Montgomery tonight to hold off a mob during integration rally. In the background an automobile burns after being overturned by the mob." (AP Wirephoto 1961)

Title: Freedom Riders
Identifier: e_frp_032
Creator: Associated Press (Photographer)
Dates: 1961-05-31
Resource: Freedom Riders press photographs album
Description: Caption from the Associated Press reads, "RIDERS ENTER TRAIN STATION---Freedom riders talk with newsmen as they enter the train station in Jackson yesterday. From top left they are: Charles A. Haynie, Ithaca, N.Y., Joe Griffith, Ithaca, and Tom Green Ithaca, top center. James Davis Jr., front left, and Robert L. Heller, Rockville Center, N.Y. in foreground. All are in city jail today." (AP Wirephoto 1961)

Title: Freedom Riders
Identifier: e_frp_033
Creator: Associated Press (Photographer)
Dates: 1961-05-31
Resource: Freedom Riders press photographs album
Description: Caption from the Associated Press reads, "RIDERS ARRIVE BY TRAIN---Five of the 8 freedom riders arriving in Jackson leave the train which brought them from New Orleans yesterday. The group, which included four white male students from Cornell University, were arrested when they sought to use white facilities in the depot." (AP Wirephoto 1961)

Title: Freedom Riders
Identifier: e_frp_034
Creator: Associated Press (Photographer)
Dates: 1961-05-25
Resource: Freedom Riders press photographs album
Description: Caption from the Associated Press reads, "GOVERNOR LISTENS---Gov. Ross Barnett of Mississippi, listens to a question from a newsman at press conference in Jackson today. Gov. Barnett said anyone breaking the state laws will be arrested." (AP Wirephoto 1961)

Title: Freedom Riders
Identifier: e_frp_035
Creator: Associated Press (Photographer)
Dates: 1961-05-06
Resource: Freedom Riders press photographs album
Description: Caption from the Associated Press reads, "TAKES FIFTH AMENDMENT---Mrs. Lannie Linton, registrar of voters in Claiborne Parish, refused to answer questions from the U.S. Civil Rights Commission about voting records in the north Louisiana parish. She pleaded the Fifth Amendment. Dist. Atty. Fred L. Jackson of Homer, La., gave the commission a statement in which Mrs. Linton claimed the hearing was similar to Cuban Premier Castroís public trials for Cuban patriots. The commission excused Mrs. Linton and later ened its probe into alleged discrimination against Negro voters in Louisiana." (AP Wirephoto 1961)

Title: Freedom Riders
Identifier: e_frp_029
Creator: Associated Press (Photographer)
Dates: 1961-05-15
Resource: Freedom Riders press photographs album
Description: Caption from the Associated Press reads, "BYSTANDER BEAEN---Jimmie Ayers, 71, at a hospital where he was treated for cuts and bruises following a racial demonstration here yesterday. Ayers said he was standing on a sidewalk a block away from a bus station where the violence flared when three white men leaped from an automobile and attacked him." (AP Wirephoto 1961)