#OTD in 1961, @repjohnlewis (then a young civil rights activist) was severely beaten by a mob at the Rock Hill, SC, Greyhound bus terminal. A few days earlier, Lewis and 12 Freedom Riders left Washington, DC on a Greyhound bus headed to New Orleans.https://calendar.eji.org/racial-injustice/may/09 …
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