Journey of Reconciliation

Date

April 9–23, 1947

Location

Durham, North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Result

Inconclusive

Parties to the civil conflict

Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)
American Friends Service Committee (AFSC)
Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR)

State police

Lead figures

George Houser
James Peck
Bayard Rustin
Dennis Banks
Andrew Johnson
Conrad Lynn
Wallace Nelson
Eugene Stanley
William Worthy
Nathan Wright
Louis Adams
Ernest Bromley
Joseph Felmet
Homer Jack
Worth Randle
Igal Roodenko

Arrests, etc

Deaths:
Injuries:
Arrests: 16

Deaths:
Injuries:

Journey of Reconciliation was a form of nonviolent direct action to challenge segregation laws on interstate buses in the Southern United States. The two-week journey by 16 men began on 9 April 1947. It was seen as inspiring the later Freedom Rides of the Civil Rights Movement. James Peck, one of the white participants, also took part in the Freedom Ride of May 1961.

Sixteen men from the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) took part, eight white and eight black, including the organizers, white Methodist minister George Houser of the Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR) and CORE and black Quaker Bayard Rustin of FOR and the American Friends Service Committee. The other black participants were Chicago musician Dennis Banks; Andrew Johnson, a student from Cincinnati; New York attorney Conrad Lynn; Wallace Nelson, a freelance lecturer; Eugene Stanley of North Carolina A&T College; William Worthy of the New York Council for a Permanent FEPC; and Nathan Wright, a church social worker from Cincinnati. The other white participants were North Carolina ministers Louis Adams and Ernest Bromley; Joseph Felmet of the Southern Workers Defense League; Homer Jack, executive secretary of the Chicago Council Against Racial and Religious Discrimination; James Peck, editor of the Workers Defense League News Bulletin; Worth Randle, a Cincinnati biologist; and radical pacifist Igal Roodenko.

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