This was only five years after three freedom riders were murdered in Mississippi.
Just about all the Freedom Riders needed medical attention, but the hospital they were taken to did not give them much help.
This year's dinner celebrated the 50th anniversary of the women freedom riders.
Did oil companies offer executives paid leave to be Freedom Riders?
This was achieved the year before the Freedom Riders arrived in 1961.
The owners decided to close rather than serve the mixed group of Freedom Riders.
The year is 1961, a time of freedom riders, sit-ins and mounting racial violence in the South.
Despite the violence suffered and the threat of more to come, the Freedom Riders wanted to continue their journey.
The first group sent to the farm were 45 male Freedom Riders, 29 blacks and 16 whites.
He was one of the 13 original Freedom Riders.