On May 4, 1961, 13 men and women – black and white – boarded two buses in Washington, D.C., for New Orleans. Their goal was to deliberately integrate Southern bus stops by ignoring colored- and white-only signs. These "Freedom Riders" were met with attacks and fire bombs along their journey. As word spread, hundreds would join in, boarding buses throughout the South in solidarity. Fifty years later, in a gathering of original Freedom Riders, Congressmen John Lewis (D-GA) and Bob Filner (D-CA) lead a commemoration of events that helped ignite the Civil Rights movement nationwide.