You Don't Have to Ride Jim Crow!

Eleven years before Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat in Alabama, Irene Morgan rejected that demand on an interstate bus in Virginia. The NAACP's Thurgood Marshall took her case to the Supreme Court. He won - but Southern states refused to enforce the law. In response, an interracial group of activists invented the first Freedom Ride. They join to relive their remarkable trip 50 years later.Eleven years before Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat in Alabama, Irene Morgan rejected that demand on an interstate bus in Virginia. The NAACP's Thurgood Marshall took her case to the Supreme Court. He won - but Southern... Read more