Posts Tagged ‘Anniston’

Return to Anniston: The Mother’s Day Firebombing

In Oral History on 8 May 2008 tagged Anniston, Hank Thomas, Violence with 1 comment

A sophomore at Howard University, Hank Thomas was one of the original 13 Freedom Riders who left Washington, DC, on May 4, 1961, heading south. Though they encountered some violence in Rock Hill, SC, they made their way without major incident through Virginia, the Carolinas and Georgia. On Mother’s Day — May 14 — 1961, […]