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Freedom Riders' Greyhound bus firebombed near Anniston, Alabama

A mob attacked and firebombed a Greyhound bus carrying Freedom Riders near Anniston, Alabama, and passengers were beaten as the bus was disabled and set afire.

Freedom Riders' Greyhound bus firebombed near Anniston, Alabama

The violent assault dramatized the intensity of Southern opposition to desegregation, increased national outrage, and intensified pressure on the Kennedy administration to respond to civil-rights violence.

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