Janice Grant: Freedom Rider memories
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In this oral history segment, Janice Grant recalls Harford Countians' support for the Freedom Riders in the early 1960s. The Freedom Riders included Michael "Mickey" Schwerner, killed in Mississippi in 1964. [Interviewer: James Karmel, Harford Community College]
This file appears in: Route 40 Freedom Ride
Route 40 Freedom Ride
Usually when Americans remember the Freedom Rides, they think of buses that traversed the deep South in the early 1960s to protest racism at bus depots and lunch counters and the like. The Freedom Riders' demonstrated that, in many southern states,…