Mother’s Day, 1961, Joseph Mills

Diane Corson, Three Pine Sea   Mother’s Day, 1961   When the Greyhound bus carrying the freedom riders arrived, a group of Klansmen were waiting, some wearing their “Sunday best.” They shouted racial slurs, set fires, and beat anyone they could reach with bats, pipes, and chains. In Birmingham, the police chief, Bull Connor, explained […]

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