Who Were the Riders?

Who Were the Riders?. . In Atlanta, the Riders separated into two integrated groups to board two different buses; the seven who were on the Greyhound bus destined for Anniston included:, . Albert Bigelow, 55 white male from Connecticut (a retired naval officer, architect, housing administrator, and peace activist) , . Ed Blankenheim, 27 white male from Arizona (a carpenter and student at the University of Arizona) , . Genevieve Hughes, 28 white female, who lived in Washington, D.C. (CORE field secretary) , . Jimmy McDonald, 29 black male from New York City, (folk singer and CORE activist) , . Mae Frances Moultrie, 24 black female from Sumter, S.C. (student at Morris College) , . Joseph Perkins, 27 black male from Owensboro, Ky. (CORE field secretary) , . Hank Thomas, 19 black male from Elton, Florida (student at Howard University), Also on the Greyhound were five regular passengers and two journalists, Charlotte Devree and Moses Newson. Unbeknownst to the Riders, the Greyhound regional manager Roy Robinson, and two undercover plainclothes agents of the Alabama Highway Patrol, Corporals Ell Cowling and Harry Sims also boarded. Seven other Riders boarded a Trailways bus, which was scheduled to arrive in Anniston an hour later than the Greyhound (See Trail site # 2)., The CORE plan had been to arrive in New Orleans, La., on May 17, the seventh anniversary of the Brown decision outlawing segregated schools. On the morning of May 4, fourteen ordinary citizens boarded two buses for a journey in search of simple justice. Their well-planned journey would end abruptly in Anniston on Mother's Day, May 14, 1961.