Credit: Bruce Davidson / Magnum Photos Learn about the 1961 Freedom Rides through an interactive map showing routes, key locations and events. Credit: Mississippi Department of Archives & History Learn more about the people involved in the Freedom Rider movement through biographies, photos and film clips.

Rosa Parks rode at the front of a Montgomery, Alabama, bus on the day the Supreme Court's ban on segregation of the city's buses took effect. A year earlier, she had been arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a bus.

Silphia Horton, Frank Hamilton, Guy Carawan, and Pete Seeger. "We Shall Overcome." New York: Ludlow Music, Inc., 1963. Music Division. (9-19) Courtesy of Ludlow Music, Inc., 11 West 19th Street New York, NY 10011 Its first separate publication, on exhibit here, gives credit of authorship to, among others, Silphia Horton of the Highlander Folk School, who learned the song from the tobacco workers, and Pete Seeger, who helped to popularize the song and gentrified its title from "We Will Overcome."