Rev. Martin Luther King, at Atlanta Univ. Photo: Howard Sochurek, The LIFE Picture Collection/Gett

Rev. Martin Luther King, at Atlanta Univ.

American Civil Rights Leader Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968) (center, in striped necktie) and others greet Freedom Riders about to board a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, May 1961. The Freedom Riders rode buses throughout the southern United States in the months following the Boynton v. Virginia Supreme Court case, which essentially outlawed racial segregation on public transportation, in order to test and call attention to still existing local policies that ran contrary to national laws. Photo: Paul Schutzer, The LIFE Picture Collection/Gett

American Civil Rights Leader Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. (1929...

Joan C. Browning at 18, as an Albany Freedom Rider. from "Joan C. Browning Papers," Emory University Manuscript, Archives and Rare Book Library. Browning, Dion Diamond, and Reginald Green will talk about their experiences as Freedom Riders at the Holiday Inn in Bridgeport, Conn. on January 21, 2015. Photo: Contributed Photo

Joan C. Browning at 18, as an Albany Freedom Rider. from "Joan C....

Joan C. Browning, Dion Diamond, Joan Trumpauer Mulholland, and Reginald Green, Freedom Riders at the premiere of documentary Freedom Riders, in Congressional theater sponsored by Congressional Black Caucus, 2011. Browing, Diamond and Green will talk about their experiences at the Holiday Inn in Bridgeport, Conn. on January 21, 2015. Photo: Contributed Photo, Courtesy Of Autumn Shelton

Joan C. Browning, Dion Diamond, Joan Trumpauer Mulholland, and...

Joan C. Browning, center, with two sitting members of U. S. Congress who were Freedom Riders, The Hons. John Lewis and Bob Filner. Browning will talk about her experiences as Freedom Riders at the Holiday Inn in Bridgeport, Conn. on January 21, 2015. Photo: Contributed Photo, Courtesy Of Autumn Shelton

Joan C. Browning, center, with two sitting members of U. S....

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