Queens Borough President Donovan Richards QnsBPRichards honored the 60th anniversary of the 1961 Freedom Riders from Queens, some of whom were in attendance at the gathering at Queens Borough Hall this Tuesday. nyc queens freedomriders
The Freedom Riders risked life and limb protesting illegal and often violent racial segregation throughout the South.
Donovan was especially appreciative of the political impact of the riders, he said, being the first Black man elected in Queens County to the borough president’s office. He commended the heroes in the front row who as young adults boarded buses to the South with determination to make change. “Despite the U.S. Supreme Court decision to outlaw racist practices, some states decided to follow their own set of rules. Those states’ rules ignored the end of Jim Crow,” said Donovan.
Sutton-James said that her grandfather was from San Antonio, Texas and had been beaten bloody by police officers before eventually making his way to New York City. “He had witnessed neighbors and friends being forced to cower frankly to white domination in the South,” said Sutton-James. Councilmember Selvena Brooks-Powers in District 31 added that defying a “regressive and racist government” is just as relevant today as it was in the 1960s, referring to the overturning of Roe v. Wade and an end to the federal law that protected legal abortions.
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