Freedom Riders Journey

Follow the perilous journey for civil rights undertaken by the Freedom Riders in the early 1960s from DC to Mississippi on this virtual tour of their trip through six states. Learn of their trials and triumphs in 51 minutes of story telling through 16 locations.

Explore on location on a driving or walking tour, or from the comfort of your home! This limited version features 5 locations.

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“The plan . . . was simplicity itself. In any sane, even half-civilized society it would have been completely innocuous, hardly worth a second thought or meriting any comment at all. CORE, which means Congress of Racial Equality, would be sending an integrated team—black and white together—from the nation’s capital to New Orleans on public transportation. That’s all. Except, of course, that they would sit randomly on the buses in integrated pairs and in the stations they would use waiting room facilities, casually, ignoring the white/colored signs. What could be more harmless . . . in any even marginally healthy society?” a statement made by Stokely Carmichael of the Freedom Riders. Little did he know, what truly lay ahead.

*Note: Continued use of GPS in the background can dramatically decrease battery life. The app and GPS remain active in the background as you walk from place to place, so that you can listen to each location conveniently as you travel, without removing the phone from your pocket or pressing buttons, even when your phone goes to sleep!