The Freedom Riders

civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States in 1961 and following years to challenge the non-enforcement of the United States Supreme Court decisions Irene Morgan v. Commonwealth of Virginia (1946) and Boynton v. Virginia (1960), which ruled that segregated public buses were unconstitutional.

once stated that her role in Mississippi civil rights was "a supporter of her husband's efforts." Her husband, Jack Young Sr, was a distinguished Civil Rights lawyer in Mississippi
she assisted in informing her husband about the arrests of the Freedom Riders that were happening and where
she allowed Freedom Riders to stay at her home because whites refused them hotel accommodations
wrote letters to the Freedom Riders parents to update them
drew people into the Civil Rights movement
participated in first sit-in in Jackson, MS with her husband

Aurelia Young's role with Freedom Riders

"Our house is no longer like Grand Central Station; it seems more like international airport. It is the only place in Jackson where people are integrated -- they are even segregated in the jails."

- Aurelia Norris Young