Bigelow, Albert, 1906-1993
- Authoritative Name:
- Bigelow, Albert, 1906-1993
- Biography:
- Albert Bigelow; b. Albert Smith Bigelow, 1906; architect, illustrator, former navy commander, and Quaker; capt. of Golden Rule, thirty ft. ketch whose proposed voyage to the Eniwetok Proving Grounds in Marshall Islands in early 1958 was intended as a protest against nuclear weapons. He was on the CORE Freedom Ride in 1961 and was on the bus attacked and burned by a mob in Anniston, Alabama, May 14. He died October 6, 1993.
- Associated Subjects:
- Bigelow, Albert, 1906-1993
- Archival Collections And Reference Resources:
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Freedom Rides
- Creator:
- Hatfield, Edward A.
- Date of Original:
- 2008-04-11
- Collection:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Contributing Institution:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia (Project)
WSB-TV newsfilm clip of a burned out Greyhound bus and injured Freedom Riders in the hospital in Anniston, Alabama, 1961 May 14
- Creator:
- WSB-TV (Television station : Atlanta, Ga.)
- Date of Original:
- 1961-05-14
- Collection:
- WSB-TV Newsfilm Collection
- Contributing Institution:
- Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection