John Gager, one of the Freedom Riders who took a Trailways bus to Mississippi during the summer of 1961, will speak at Princeton United Methodist church on Sunday, November 9, at an 8 a.m. breakfast in the Fellowship Hall.

Gager participated in the civil disobedience protests against discriminatory Jim Crow laws and was arrested and jailed. “By pushing the boundaries, the civil-rights protests opened up space where people could think and act differently. The greatest changes come about not through changes in law, but in attitude,” said Gager in an interview with Princeton Alumni Weekly.

He retired in 2006 as the William H. Danforth Professor of Religion after 38 years on the Princeton University faculty.

This program will complement the traveling exhibit, “Risking Everything: A Freedom Summer,” which will be at the John Witherspoon Learning Commons, 217 Walnut Lane, from November 16 to 23 and at the Carl A. Fields Center from November 25…