- Collection:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Title:
- Ralph David Abernathy and Martin Luther King Jr.
- Date of Original:
- 1961
- Subject:
- African Americans--Civil rights--Georgia
Women civil rights workers--Georgia
African American women civil rights workers--Georgia
Civil rights workers--Georgia
African American civil rights workers--Georgia
Civil rights demonstrations--Georgia
Civil rights--Georgia
Civil rights movements--Georgia
Buses--Georgia
Freedom Rides, 1961 - People:
- Abernathy, Ralph, 1926-1990
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968 - Location:
- United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018
- Medium:
- black-and-white photographs
- Type:
- StillImage
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Ralph David Abernathy (right) and Martin Luther King Jr. were central organizers of the Montgomery bus boycott, which demanded that Black passengers be treated fairly on public transportation.
Photograph of civil rights leaders Ralph Abernathy (right) and Martin Luther King Jr. (left) participating in one of the Freedom Rides, which were intended to test the desegregation of public bus transportation. To test compliance with recent court rulings barring segregation in interstate travel, the Congress on Racial Equality (CORE) sponsored a series of integrated bus rides throughout the South in the spring and summer of 1961. Known thereafter as the Freedom Rides, the protests galvanized national support for civil rights reforms and compelled federal engagement in the African American freedom struggle. Although they met with violent resistance elsewhere in the region, Freedom Riders traveled unmolested through Georgia and were served courteously at multiple lunch counters throughout the state. - Metadata URL:
- https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/ralph-david-abernathy-1926-1990/m-3082/
- Rights Holder:
- Courtesy of David Fankhauser
- Original Collection:
- http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/freedom-rides
Forms part of: New Georgia Encyclopedia - Contributing Institution:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia (Project)
- Rights:
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