Weatherday: Freedom Ride
A bright start to a cool and blustery day. Scattered showers will develop in the afternoon, some heavy. A risk of hail and thunderstorms.
Highest temperature 11deg in fresh and gusty northwest winds.
On this day in 1961, in protest at segregated interstate bus travel in the southern states, a group of white and black Americans left Washington on buses bound for New Orleans.
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