Students listen to a panel discussion with the Freedom Riders held in the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery.
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Civil rights leaders Bernard Lafayette, the Rev. James Lawson, Congressman John Lewis, Diane Nash, John Seigenthaler, the Rev. C.T. Vivian and Jim Zwerg discuss their involvement in the 1961 Freedom Rides to protest segregation on public transit systems. The discussion happened on Jan. 27 at Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church in Montgomery, Ala., as part of Vanderbilt’s Freedom Ride 2007, an educational initiative during which students retraced the Freedom Ride with those that participated in 1961.
Contact: Princine Lewis (615) 322-NEWS
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