Guno צְבִי
We fight, We win
The Fredericksburg Greyhound bus depot was the first stop for the Freedom Riders, a group that started with 13 and grew to more than 400 Black and White civil rights activists who in 1961 rode regularly scheduled buses through the South to challenge the segregated interstate travel system. They were threatened, brutally attacked, jailed — even firebombed along the way. The revelation from a book by historian Raymond Arsenault really illustrated for Williams how little of Black American history is taught and commemorated.
“There’s such a rich cultural history here that hasn’t been told in a way that is satisfactory and truthful to the Commonwealth,” Williams said.
On Tuesday, about 60 years after the riders first came to Fredericksburg, the town will place a replica of the historical marker on Princess Anne Street, once a thriving center for Black businesses, in a ceremony that will be live-streamed on Facebook. Due to the pandemic, the foundry that crafts the markers couldn’t have the plaque ready in time for the ceremony, but the town hopes to have the official marker placed in the fall.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/f...cksburg-va-tells-the-untold-story/ar-BB1gkq0G
“There’s such a rich cultural history here that hasn’t been told in a way that is satisfactory and truthful to the Commonwealth,” Williams said.
On Tuesday, about 60 years after the riders first came to Fredericksburg, the town will place a replica of the historical marker on Princess Anne Street, once a thriving center for Black businesses, in a ceremony that will be live-streamed on Facebook. Due to the pandemic, the foundry that crafts the markers couldn’t have the plaque ready in time for the ceremony, but the town hopes to have the official marker placed in the fall.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/f...cksburg-va-tells-the-untold-story/ar-BB1gkq0G