College students from across the country stopped at Morehouse College in Atlanta Wednesday as part of the Freedom Riders bus tour. This month marks the 50th anniversary of the Freedom Riders, a group of more than 400 black and white Americans who rode Greyhound and Trailways buses into the Deep South from May to December 1961 to test the enforcement of federal laws. Two Georgia students, JoyEllen Freeman of the University of Georgia and Kaitlyn Whiteside, a 2011 graduate of Georgia Tech, are aboard the bus. At Morehouse, the 40 students met with original Freedom Riders and discussed their historic stance.
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