dr. richard harris. dr. harris was a black pharmacist who had also been involved on the bus boycott. he had provided some transportation coordination and at his home, the freedom riders were given safe haven. the decision was that the ride would continue. the next stop would be jackson, mississippi. may 24, 1961, two busloads of freedom riders, many of whom had been on the early bus to montgomery left montgomery on the trailways bus. when the freedom riders arrived in jackson, they did try to integrate the segregated facilities there and were arrested. they were charged with breach of peace and many of them served 30 to 40 days in jail. were arresteds and served time in prison in jackson, mississippi. which meant they never arrived at the destination in new orleans. even after all of the activism and all of the work that people like rosa parks and dr. martin luther king had done desegregating the city buses in montgomery, for most black voters their lives did not change much. they were in the same situations they had been before. it was after the student sit in when the freedom rider