Africans Are Served - and So Are Americans
This file appears in: Route 40 Freedom Ride
These are two pages from a Life article in December 1961. The pages describe the negotiations involving CORE and business owners to avoid a Freedom Ride, which led to some Route 40 restaurants to change ending their segregated practices. However, the article erred when it ended with: "No African or U.S. Negro need again be rebuffed- at least on Route 40." In fact, not all the restaurants had changed their policies and some had apparently gone back on their previous agreement to do so, leading to the Route 40 Freedom Ride on December 16, 1961.
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,…