The Reverse Freedom Rides

Southern segregationists behind the reverse freedom rides like to pretend they were just doing a favor to African Americans who had already been wanting to head north. Gabriela Emmanuel explored the history of one family in particular, a single mother in Arkansas who had recently lost her welfare benefits. Ms. Williams was raising 11 children on her own. Above the fireplace in her three room home, she hung three portraits, Martin Luther King's Jr., John F. Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy. Lila Mae asked the bus driver about half an hour before getting to Hyannis to pull over so she could put her finest clothes on.