This week we commemorate the first Freedom Ride leaving Washington D.C. 62 years ago and heading to New Orleans. Brave Black Americans and brave white Americans sat together in defiance of the Jim Crow segregationist state laws that still reigned in the South.
Through much of 1961, the Freedom Riders faced prejudice, imprisonment, and violent attacks.
Hank has teamed up with South Carolina Rep. Nancy Mace to introduce a bipartisan resolution that would award the Freedom Riders the Congressional Gold Medal in recognition of their service to civil rights, equality, and a just rule of law.
Congressman Hank Johnson is a former defense attorney, DeKalb County commissioner, small business owner, and magistrate judge who now serves in Congress as a champion for the middle class.
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