Freedom Riders

In Anniston, Alabama, an angry mob stoned and firebombed the Greyhound bus holding some of the original Freedom Riders.  May 14, 1961. Copyright Corbis.

Watch for this new documentary, “Freedom Riders,” written and directed by Stanley Nelson, coming to American Experience May 2011.

I’m lifting this quote from Sean Murphey’s blog post MLK: Remembering the Man and Acknowledging Unfinished Business:

All we need to do is look around, a half-century later, and see what a long way we have come.

All we need to do is look around, a half-century later, and see what a long way we still need to go.