US Freedom Riders remember summer of change 60 years later
Al Jazeera
From May to November of 1961 more than 400 young activists, Black and white, boarded interstate buses headed for cities.
Sixty years ago, a group of idealistic young people set out to challenge segregation in the southern United States. Among them were Lewis Zuchman, 19, and Luvaghn Brown, 16, who became friends during the Freedom Rides campaign in the summer of 1961. Now in their 70s, neither is sure of the details. “I was the youngest white freedom rider, and Luvaghn was the youngest Black freedom rider,” Zuchman told Al Jazeera. “We met somehow.” Brown said the pair met in Jackson, Mississippi but how they got to talking – “we can’t figure that out,” he laughed.
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