Last One!! Iconic Replicas 1:87 GM PD4104 Motorcoach Greyhound Lines: 60th Anniversary of the Freedom Riders

Limited edition of 600

All diecast metal with pad-printed graphics

Destination: BIRMINGHAM

Proceeds from the sale of these models will be donated to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).

Graphics on this replica are true and exact to the bus that was burned.

Freedom Riders were groups of white and African American civil rights activists who participated in Freedom Rides, bus trips through the American South in 1961 to protest segregated bus terminals. On Sunday, May 14, 1961, Mother's Day, scores of angry white people blocked a Greyhound bus carrying black and white passengers through rural Alabama. The attackers pelted the vehicle with rocks and bricks, slashed tires, smashed windows with pipes and axes and lobbed a firebomb through a broken window. As smoke and flames filled the bus, the mob barricaded the door. "Burn them alive," somebody cried out. An exploding fuel tank and warning shots from arriving state troopers forced the rabble back and allowed the riders to escape the inferno. Even then some were pummeled with baseball bats as they fled.

A few hours later, black and white passengers on a Trailways bus were beaten bloody after they entered whites-only waiting rooms and restaurants at bus terminals in Birmingham and Anniston, Alabama.