1947 — Journey of Reconciliation
April 9 - Virginia: Riders leave Washington, D.C., for Richmond.
April 10 - Arrival at Petersburg. Conrad Lynn arrested.
April 11 - North Carolina: Trailways bus arrives at Raleigh. Greyhound bus arrives at Durham.
April 12 - Bayard Rustin, James Peck, and Andrew Johnson arrested in Durham. Arrival at Chapel Hill.
April 13 - Rustin, Johnson, Peck, Joseph Felmet, and Igal Roodenko arrested in Chapel Hill.
April 13 - Trailways bus arrives in Greensboro.
April 14 - Greyhound bus arrives in Winston-Salem.
April 15 - Buses pass through Statesville. Trailways bus arrives in Asheville.
April 16 - Peck and Dennis Banks arrested in Asheville.
April 17 - Tennessee: Trailways bus arrives in Knoxville. Greyhound bus arrives in Nashville.
April 18 - Kentucky: Greyhound bus arrives in Louisville.
April 19 - One Greyhound bus leaves from Weaversville, N.C. Train Riders make overnight stops in West Virginia and Kentucky.
April 20 - Virginia: Greyhound and train Riders arrive in Roanoke.
April 21 - Greyhound and train Riders arrive in Lynchburg.
April 22 - Several arrested in Amherst and Culpeper.
April 23 - Arrival in Washington, D.C.
1961 — CORE Freedom Ride
May 4 - Virginia: Riders leave Washington, D.C., for Richmond.
May 5 - Arrival in Petersburg.
May 6 - Riders pass through Farmville and Lynchburg.
May 7 - North Carolina: Arrival in Danville and Greensboro.
May 8 - Riders pass through High Point, Salisbury, and Charlotte, where Joseph Perkins is arrested.
May 9 - South Carolina: Arrival in Rock Hill, where John Lewis is attacked.
May 10 - Arrivals in Winnsboro, where Hank Thomas and Peck are arrested, and Columbia.
May 10-11 - Arrivals in Sumter.
May 12 - Georgia: Arrival in Augusta.
May 13 - Riders pass through Athens and meet Martin Luther King, Jr. in Atlanta.
May 14 - Alabama: Riders attacked in Anniston and Birmingham.
May 15 - Louisiana: Original riders fly to New Orleans.
May 16-17 - Riders in New Orleans.
Reinforcements
May 17 - Alabama: Riders leave from Nashville for Birmingham, where they are arrested.
May 18 - Bull Connor takes riders to state line.
May 19 - Riders driven from Ardmore back to Birmingham.
May 20 - Riders arrive in Montgomery, where they are attacked.
May 21-22 - Mass meeting in First Baptist Church.
May 24 - Mississippi: Riders leave Montgomery for Jackson, where they are arrested.
June 15 - Riders transferred to Parchman Prison Farm.
July 7 - First group of riders leave Parchman.
Nov 1 - ICC announces desegregation of interstate bus facilities.