These are some images of the award winning exhibit “James Farmer and the Freedom Rides” that was installed in Ball Circle at the University of Mary Washington. It centered on a vintage bus that represented the buses that the Freedom Riders took on their journey south in 1961. I was a member of the team of five which conceived the exhibit, designed it, and wrote the labels. In addition to what you can see in these photographs, we had a compilation of civil rights songs that played from the buses interior, and it was lit by floodlights at night. The exhibit included a blank figure outline to represent “everyone” with the invitation to tell people whether and why you would get on the bus. During the month that the exhibit was up, visitors filled up three of these figures with their responses.
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