Located at the bus shelter at the Rosemary St. & Columbia St. Parking Lot, this shelter commemorates the 75th anniversary of the Journey of Reconciliation, also known as the First Freedom Ride. Seventy-five years ago, an interracial group of civil rights activists set out on "The First Freedom Ride" to test a Supreme Court ruling declaring segregation on interstate buses unconstitutional. Chapel Hill was the only stop where the group was met with violence.
The 1947 photo depicts Journey of Reconciliation riders Worth Randle, Wally Nelson, Ernest Bromley, Jim Peck, Igal Roodenko, Bayard Rustin, Joe Felmet, George Houser, and Andy Johnson holding suitcases and coats outside the office of Attorney S.W. Robinson in Richmond, Virginia.
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