Black activists travel the South to push for voting protections, honor Freedom Riders

RICHMOND, Va. – Hannah Gebresilassie felt the weight of history earlier this week  when she boarded a bus full of voting rights activists traveling from Georgia to Virginia. Sixty years ago, civil rights activists had also traveled by bus through the South in their fight for a more equal society.

The 30-year-old activist from Atlanta understood she was riding in the shadow of Freedom Riders.