International Scrutiny on Route 40, 1961
This file appears in: Route 40 Freedom Ride
This is the first page of a Life Magazine article from 1961 that described the racist exclusion of African diplomates from Route 40 restaurants that took place in 1961. The incidents led to national press and the Kennedy administration's intervention to minimize international outrage over these incidents.
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,…