MAY 20, 1961 In this 1961 photo, civil rights leader John Lewis, left, stands next to James Zwerg, a Fisk University student. Both were attacked during the Freedom Rides. Credit: AP A white mob of more than 300, including Klansmen, attacked Freedom Riders at the Greyhound Bus Station in Montgomery, Alabama. Future Congressman John Lewis was among them. “An angry mob came out of nowhere, hundreds of people, with bricks and balls, chains,” Lewis …