America’s first Freedom Riders finally complete their journey — 65 years later

By Diego Perdomo Contributing Writer NEW ORLEANS — Multiple generations of Black civil rights activists met here recently to honor a group of Freedom Riders after they finally completed a disrupted bus journey from Washington D.C. to New Orleans 65 years after the original trip was violently halted. The original ride, the first in a …

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