Freedom Riders Anniston Alabama

Multiple generations of Black civil rights activists met at Xavier University on Wednesday to honor a group of Freedom Riders after they finally completed a disrupted bus journey from Washington D.C. to New Orleans 65 years after the original trip was halted. The original ride, the first in a series of trips to protest Jim Crow laws, was interrupted when a segregationist mob firebombed their buses in Anniston, Alabama.

Work is set to begin on a park in memory of a brutal attack on civil rights activists 51 years ago and the progress made since then.The Anniston Star…