The Herald

FREEDOM: Freedom Riders aimed at cracking the southern pattern of segregation will face arrest in the future instead of mob violence, as was the case in the earlier incidents. Alabama cities under martial law will protect riders from mob violence, but will press for arrest under state segregation statutes.

Both Alabama and Mississippi expect more riders as students get out of colleges this week. Authorities describe the riders as not being the misled bands that whites have called them, but extremely militant people who have decided that direct, dramatic action such as "rides" is the only way to shock the south into change. The state of Alabama escorted a number of riders to the state lines, but did not realize that before they left they had quietly integrated both the lunch counter and the white waiting room in the Montgomery bus station. The announcement that arrests face future groups means that the future tests will be in the courts rather than stations. The arrest pattern has been followed in Mississippi, and the peace thus enforced may well mean that the cases will not find their way to the courts of that state.