Freedom Riders Redux

     The Human Rights Campaign is sending a bus to tour the U.S. States that are unlikely to approve same-sex marriage willingly...like Alabama.

     It's reminiscent of the Freedom Riders bus tours that ended with thug kops and Klansman beating the civil rights demonstrators and burning the buses.

    We can only hope that the reception for this bus will be less violent.

     I've predicted that Alabama will be the last state...or may a tie between Mississippi and Alabama---to allow gay marriage, and no bus is going to change that.

     But there may be an awareness raising involved that's worth the effort. 

NEW Freedom Riders Coming To Montgomery

     As a promotion for next Spring's airing on PBS of a documentary about the freedom riders who came from North to South to support the Civil Rights movement, a bus of college students and veterans of the original journeys will travel to Montgomery and cities in other Southern States.

     The "American Experience" program will air the program, and is soliciting college students to apply for the a seat on the bus.

     The documentary is being screened in New York City tomorrow.

See The Trailer in the post below.