Between May and November of 1961, hundreds of young people set out - on buses - to challenge segregation in the southern United States.
The “Freedom Riders", as they were known, were often beaten and arrested at their destinations.
Sixty years later - two of them have been recalling that summer to Al Jazeera.
Al Jazeera's Kristen Saloomey has more from New York.

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