Freedom Riders recount Ala. attack 50 yrs later

The Freedom Riders recount the story of their narrow escape from a terrifying mob attack on their bus in Anniston, Ala. Russ Mitchell reports on the 50th anniversary of a violent milestone in the struggle for civil rights.

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[ItzEthanDuh]

God bless these men and women. Im sure this video will have racist comments but these people were true soldiers for a good cause

[KingHenrikLundqvist]

We just covered this in history, I feel sickened that my colour discriminated another just because they were a different colour.

[Sistarovat]

@PoliticalAbstract Things never really change? Change from what? What exactly do you expect to 'change'?

[sh8896a]

@ranchai100 Your language alone says that you are unable to have an intelligent conversation, because your mind is clouded with hatred. So please do the world and favor and jump...

[ranchai100]

@sh8896a I see,so FBI and Justice department stats must be ignorant to as they show that niggers in general commit the majority of violent crime.Just as these so called freedom riders did.I would love to see their rap sheets from back then,dollars to donuts it will show the nigger penchant for rape,murder.etc.

[sh8896a]

@ranchai100 Go kill yourself...it's obvious you're unhappy. There's no cure for your ignorance. Just do the world a favor. 

[PoliticalAbstract]

@Sistarovat

Your comments alone just goes to show that things never truly change. SMH.

[Megagodzilla328a]

@Sistarovat 1961!!

[Sistarovat]

@WildWestSamurai First of all, I agree the law was immoral. But it is debatable about whether or not it was unconstitutional. Secondly, while everyone in the mob may have not been a Klan member, the riot in Anniston just like the one in Birmingham was organized and planned by the Klan ahead of time and many of those in the mob had driven from as far away as Tennessee to participate. Thirdly, the KKK is highly secretive. Most of the good people in Anniston didn't een find out about it till after.

[WildWestSamurai]

@Sistarovat How do you know the whole mob was affiliated with the Klan? Racist white people who didn't agree with the Klan's tactics or ridiculous costumes did exist, you know.

Even if the whole mob was Klan-affiliated, that means the "good" white police of Anniston did nothing. The "good" white people of Anniston did nothing. While a bus full of human beings was set on fire, and this mob tried shutting them all inside. And for what? For breaking an unconstitutional and immoral law.

[Sistarovat]

America was a FAR better country back then. You didn't have niggers wearing their pants below their butt and rapping like a bunch of jungle bunnies. Those kids were sent South for one reason by those dirty CORE cowards - to get their heads busted on camera. If they hadn't been breaking the law, none of this had happened. Furthermore, the actions of that Klan mob in no way represented the will of the white people of Anniston in 1960.

[BoredInfidel]

@Lordismyportion You're going to be sorely disappointed in a couple days.