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Friends of the Freedom Rides Museum

​I n  1961 ,  t h e  S i g n s  C a m e  D o w n
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Help Us Share This Essential American Story

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“This landmark confronts its past and looks to the future”  
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-John Lewis, Freedom Rider and US Congressman
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Two young women from the 2011 Student Freedom Ride during a program at the Freedom rides Museum
Former Historical Commission intern Stephanie Burton (r) at the museum with a colleague on the 2011 Student Freedom Ride sponsored by American Experience.

​In 1961, the "Colored Entrance" and "Whites Only" signs came down in southern bus and train stations. 

It was the direct result of the 1961 Freedom Rides.

The Freedom Rides Museum tells this story in Montgomery’s Greyhound Bus Station. A place where key events in this history took place.

​What visitors say ...
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“small, but powerful”  
-JH, Laos


“able to hold our teen's attention for an hour”  
-SR, Alabama USA


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Friends of the Freedom Rides Museum

We support the Freedom Rides Museum and help connect it to the places that tell this American story. 

Friends of the Freedom Rides Museum
217 South Court Street, Suite 101, Montgomery, Alabama 36104-4021
​www.freedomridesmuseumfriends.org
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