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Freedom Riders have breakfast at a lunch counter in the bus station in Montgomery shortly before leaving for Jackson, Miss. and New Orleans. It was the first time the eating facilities at the station had been integrated. May 24,1961. The first group of Freedom Riders, with the intent of integrating interstate buses, left Washington, D.C. by Greyhound bus in early May 1961.