Freedom Riders Board the Bus: Testing Desegregation in the South
The Freedom Riders boarded buses in Washington D.C. and drove straight into the heart of segregation, compelling Southern authorities to confront their violent resistance to desegregation. Their willingness to face firebombs and beatings galvanized federal intervention, directly leading President Kennedy to order the Interstate Commerce Commission to enforce desegregation on interstate travel within months.
May 4, 1961
65 years ago
Key Figures & Places
What Else Happened on May 4
Das erste überlieferte starke Erdbeben in Österreich ereignet sich im Liesertal. Zwei Burgen und einige Kirchen werden von ihm zerstört.
Pope Alexander IV had a problem: dozens of tiny hermit communities scattered across Italy, each following Augustine's rule, none following orders from Rome. So …
ratification du traité de Guérande signé le 15 janvier de la même année entre le duché de Bretagne et le royaume de France.Bataille de Tewkesbury
They burned his bones thirty-one years after he died. John Wycliffe had translated the Bible into English and questioned papal authority from Oxford. Safe in hi…
The rebel who united Sweden's miners and peasants against Danish rule didn't fall in battle. Engelbrekt Engelbrektsson was stabbed to death by a Swedish noblema…
en el Reino nazarí de Granada, las huestes cristianas de Enrique IV de Castilla entran en los pueblos de Alora, Coín y Cártama (actual provincia de Málaga), arr…
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