Freedom Riders

It is hard to wrap my head around the fact that riding the bus can get one hurt and killed and how non-volient acts can lead to so much hate and violence. The Freedom Rides help bring attention to national level. The level of violence is extreme in response to a non-violent movement. The white supremacy was trying its best to make the colored population inferior. The segregation is a symbol of fear and hate. The press and television is a big part in the success of the movement. They help shape the public opinion toward segregation. The media brought the problem to our attention through dramatic and often disturbing photos and reports.

42. Freedom Riders tried to draw attention to the South’s refusal to integrate bus terminals.

Shattered dreams. Broken promises. They were hung between freedom and slavery. They struggled to find a different kind of freedom and independency where justice has yet to exist and racism wasn’t just a part of life, but what life was all about.

Stanley Nelson chronicles the journey of a group of individuals, known as the Freedom Riders, whom fought for the rights of African Americans to have the same amenities and access as the Caucasians. The purpose of the Freedom Rides was to deliberately violate the Jim Crow laws of the south that prohibited blacks and whites from mixing together on buses and trains. Expectedly, many of the Freedom Riders were beaten and the majority was imprisoned. This carried on for the majority of 1961 and culminated with the Interstate Commerce Commission issuing an order to end the segregation in bus and rail stations. Nelson encapsulates this entire movement in about two hours. At the end of the two hours, the viewer is emotionally tied to the

While in jail, the Freedom Riders were mistreated by policemen; they were cursed at and humiliated. To get through the constant interrogations, they sang songs like: “We Shall Overcome”, “Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around”, and “Back of The Bus.” More Freedom Riders were sent to jail and each member ended up having a year sentence. James Farmer urged members to remain in jail for at least 40 days before bail. I, personally, don’t

This was unequal protection under the law. On May 20th,within 40 miles all sign of protection for the riders had disappeared. From Article 1, section 8 of the Constitution, gives Congress or the Federal government the authority and rights to organize the ICC, (the Interstate Commerce Commission.) The ICC was the desegregation of public transportation, busses can cross over state lines. Jim Lawson along with the other non violent protesters, had the right to protest, they were kept in jail, wrongly punished, taking part in the Lunch counter sit in starting in Greensboro. Did not receive dual process, The Habeas corpus is where a person may not be held by the government without a valid reason for being held.The whites who used force and violence did not get punished for their actions, nothing was thought of it. The Freedom Riders tactic was an interracial group ride through the south promoting the rights the supreme court said they could do. On Mother's Day, May 14th, the lead bus was firebombed, 12 rides hospitalized and the bus destroyed. The ride to Jacksonville was forced to protect the Constitutional Rights of the Freedom Riders, upon arrival the court accused the Riders of trespassing, they followed along with the plan to make sure they arrived safely, but they could chose to do whatever they wanted once the Riders were in their district. Other events that occurred during the Civil Rights Movement was in the Spring of 1960, sudden cease in the spending of money downtown with the intentions that pressure will change the rules and regulations. The National boycott spread to the North, and the whites started to become fearful. Throughout this time the African Americans remained calm, and continued to stand up for equality, they were determined to be free, violence was reported to

A group of people risked their life to obtain equality for African Americans in the south. The Freedom Riders were a group of around 13 people. Most of them were African Americans but there were always a few white skinned people in the group as well. There was no set leader for the Freedom Riders. The Freedom Riders rode interstate buses into the Southern United States. The south was referred to as the most segregated part of the U.S. The main goal of the Freedom Riders was to desegregate and become “separate but equal.” They had also set out to defy the Jim Crow Laws. The Freedom Riders had a little bit of help from two court cases: Irene Morgan v. Commonwealth of Virginia and Boynton v. Virginia. These court cases ruled that it was

Along the way, there were those who decided at some point along the journey that the cost of freedom was too high. The fear of the flight to freedom became too great. They would rather turn back to the plantation life of slavery. Well, somebody should have told them about our ancestor Tubman. As one of the original conductors of the Underground Railroad, the passage on her train was a one-way ticket. No stop overs and no return tickets.

The Freedom Rides garnered the attention of the whole nation with its non-violent means. Even though the Freedom Riders met with violent acts against them, they continued their journey without ever physically fighting back. During their ride through Alabama, the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) teamed up with Police Sergeant Tom Cook in their efforts to end the Rides. Together, they planned an attack by slashing the tires of the buses. The KKK-led mob forced the bus to stop several miles outside of town and then firebombed it. Luckily, the Freedom Riders escaped the bus but they were badly hurt and wounded by the mob. The second bus traveled to Birmingham, Alabama, that day, and those riders were also beaten by an

"You have the right to live in the kind of world where your rights and freedoms are respected" conveyed in Article 28 draws attention to the way aboriginal people were forced to live in, as they were prejudiced from the main towns in Australia. Article 28 gave respected freedom and rights to the indigenous to live however they want. On the 4th of May, 1961 a similar protest to the aboriginal freedom ride took place. A group of African-American and white civil rights protestants began bus trips to several towns in South America. The Freedom Rides were established by the Congress of Racial Equality, a US civil rights groups. Their purpose was to test the 1960 decision that segregation of national bus terminals was prohibited. They attempted to use 'white only' lunch tables, waiting rooms and restrooms. This proved to be a dangerous mission as they endured a lot of violent. Another evidence of White-Americans hatred towards the Africans was the incident that transpired inAnniston, Alabama. One bus was firebombed and the African-American passengers were forced to flee for their lives.

On May 20th, the Nashville riders went back to Birmingham where there were no incidents. Then, all of the Freedom Riders traveled to Montgomery where a mob of men, women, and children carrying baseball bats, tire irons, and bricks met them at the bus terminal. The angry mob swarmed the riders and they were walking off the bus and beat the passengers. They attacked SNCC activists John Lewis and Jim Zwerg, who were both severely injured in this act of violence.

The Freedom Riders encountered violence as they rode the bus. When the Freedom Riders were attacked, the police took their time to respond

On May 4, 1961 The freedom riders started their journey from Washington D.C. to Louisiana. Thirteen African Americans And White civil rights activists. They were doing this to try to end segregation. There is no more segregation and there are still whites and black that do not like each other.

“Freedom Riders” were a group of people, both black and white, who were civil rights activists from the North who “meant to demonstrate that segregated travel on interstate buses, even though banned by an I.C.C. Ruling, were still being enforced throughout much of the South” (The South 16). The Riders attempted to prove this by having a dozen or so white and black Freedom Riders board buses in the North and travel through Southern cities. This was all “a coldly calculated attempt to speed up integration by goading the South, forcing the Southern extremists to explode their tempers” ('Freedom Riders' 20). The author of the Newsweek article stated this as the Southern opinion of the reason for the Freedom Riders. The

Using metal pipes, baseball bats, sticks, and fists, the mob surged on the small group of Freedom Riders, clubbing, punching, chasing, and beating both whites and Negroes. When some of the bus riders began to