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Freedom Riders and National Guardsmen ride a bus from Alabama to Mississippi, 1961. The threat of violence from anti-integration, pro-segregation forces in the South was a daily reality for the Freedom Riders.

In this photo: Julia Aaron, David Dennis

Photo: Paul Schutzer/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images

May 01, 1961
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