Letters Left Behind
On the morning of May 4, 1961, thirteen volunteers gathered at a Greyhound terminal in Washington, D.C. Before boarding two interstate buses bound for New...
This is a contemporary on courage and sacrifice, drawing on Acts 5:29.
On the morning of May 4, 1961, thirteen volunteers gathered at a Greyhound terminal in Washington, D. C. Before boarding two interstate buses bound for New Orleans, several of them did something that reveals the weight of what they were about to do — they wrote last wills and testaments. These Freedom Riders, organized by James Farmer and the Congress of Racial Equality, were not heading into the unknown.…
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