Jim Zwerg (1939- ) was a white American civil rights activist who in 1961 took part in the protests in Nashville and the Freedom Rides. The Freedom Riders rode buses in the South to test the new ci…

On May 25, 1961, renowned documentary photographer Bruce Davidson joined a group of Freedom Riders traveling by bus from Alabama to Mississippi - a perilous journey that resulted in a series of moving images shining a spotlight on the civil rights era.