freedom rider

During his sophomore year at Stanford, he begged his parents to allow him to join the “freedom riders” heading to the Deep South.

John Doar, class of 1944, provided legal support to the freedom riders and other civil rights activists in the early 1960s.

He was a freedom rider, along with two of his children.

Unlike the reverse freedom riders, who were from the American South, many of the migrants who boarded buses this year had no personal ties to the U.S. border towns they departed from.

The terrified passengers—nine freedom riders and five regular passengers—remained glued to their seats as the mob tried to pry open the bus door and began to slash the tires.