thoughts after watching Freedom Riders
I turned 15 in the middle of the Freedom Rides. Fifty years ago.
I have just finished watching the documentary on PBS.
Images that burned into my memory and my soul.
Jim Zweig in his hospital bed, expressing his willingness to die for a righteous cause. But not to strike back in violence or anger.
Listening to John Siegenthaler, a representative of the US Government, himself beaten unconscious.
The quiet courage of Diane Nash - telling Siegenthaler that they had written their last wills and testaments the