Freedom Riders retrace journey

Six members of the Freedom Riders, a group of college students who defied segregation on interstate buses in 1961, got back on the bus to retrace their journey from Montgomery to Birmingham. They were joined by about 100 students on a trip organized by Vanderbilt University.

The Freedom Riders started as a group of 15 volunteers but swelled to a movement of more than 400 during their protests in Alabama, Mississippi and Georgia. The volunteers -- black and white -- sat together on buses, trains and planes, and staged sit-ins at segregated restaurants, lunch counters and hotels.