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(1961) These “Freedom Riders” were smiling as they arrived in Montgomery, Ala. by bus, but all were arrested the next day as they sough service at a segregated bus terminal lunch counter before their scheduled departure for Jackson, Miss. From left are Dr. John Maguire and Dr. David Swift, religion professors at Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn.; George B. Smith (head partially visible), law student at Yale University; Dr. William S. Coffin, Jr., Yale chaplain and head of the group; the Rev. Gaylor Noyce, associate professor of the Yale Divinity School; Clyde Carter and Charles Jones, theological students at Johnston C. Smith University, Charlotte, N.C. Religion News Service photo