Nation Burning of Freedom Riders’ bus by white supremacists shocked the world October 3, 2021 Jasper Colt, USA TODAY Comments Off on Burning of Freedom Riders’ bus by white supremacists shocked the world On May 14, 1961, outside Anniston, Alabama, Hank Thomas and other Freedom Riders huddled on a Greyhound bus as a white mob threw a firebomb inside.