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On This Day: Civil rights movement: A white mob twice attacks a Freedom Riders bus near... (1961)

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On May 14, 1961: Civil rights movement: A white mob twice attacks a Freedom Riders bus near Anniston, Alabama, before fire-bombing the bus and attacking the civil rights protesters who flee the burning vehicle....

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