The Freedom Ride was a 15-day journey undertaken in February 1965 by a group of non-Indigenous and Indigenous Australians in a bus across New South Wales, led by Charles Perkins, an Aboriginal civil r
Student Action For Aboriginals (SAFA) bus outside hotel, Boggabilla, New South Wales, February 1965
Preparing picket signs, Walgett, New South Wales, 1965
Student Action for Aborigines protest outside Moree Town Hall
Mayor William Llyod escorts student Action For Aboriginals (SAFA) member away from swimming pool, Moree, NSW, 1965
Freedom Riders were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated Southern United States in 1961 and subsequent years to challenge the non-enforcement of the United States Supre
Freedom Ride (Australia)
…students from the University of Sydney, who had formed a group called Student Action for Aborigines (SAFA) the previous year. Partly inspired by the Freedom Riders of the American Civil Rights Movement, the group left Sydney in a hired bus on 12 February 1965 and returned on 27 February. What they encountered was…
Mugshots of Freedom Riders, as displayed at the Center for Civil and Human Rights in Atlanta, Georgia
George Raymond Jr. was a CORE activist arrested in the Trailways bus terminal in Jackson, Mississippi, on August 14, 1961.
Mugshot of Miller G. Green when arrested for being a part of The Freedom Rides
The Greyhound bus attack site (center) is south of Anniston on Old Birmingham Highway (right). See Freedom Riders National Monument (2017 photo)