On 10 July 1961, five Freedom Riders from the St. Louis branch of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)—Benjamin Elton Cox, Annie Lumpkin, Bliss Ann Malone, John Curtis Raines, and Janet Reinitz—arrived at the Mid-West Trailways bus station at Markham and St. Louis Streets in Little Rock. A crowd of between 300 and 400 people watched as they were arrested. They were later released from jail and continued their journey to New Orleans. The Freedom Rides led to the desegregation of bus terminal facilities in Little Rock and other cities by order of the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) on 1 November 1961.