Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Freedom Riders
- May 4, 1961
- Washington, D.C.
- New Orleans, LA
- start a national movement
- challenge segregation
- nonviolence
- Fight Jim Crow
- 12 buses; 6 Greyhound & 6 Trailways
- integration was threatening an age-old tradition
- September 1961
- ICC prohibited segregation on buses & trains
- June 1946 U.S. Supreme Court struck down segregation; South didn't obey laws
- EQUALITY
- JUSTICE
- PEACE
- LIBERTY
- CHANGE
- KKK
- MLK, Jr.
- Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth
- Robert Kennedy
- JFK
- CORE
- James Farmer
- John Lewis
- Birmingham, AL
- Bull Conner
- Public Safety Commissioner
- provided no police protection
- Anniston, AL
- May 14, 1961
- Mob - 200 men
- bus bombed
- Montgomery, AL
- Gov. John Patterson
- Martial Law
- U.S. Marshals
- Jackson, MS
- Gov. Ross Barnett
- Atlanta, GA
- Rock Hill, SC
- Greensboro, NC
- Richmond, VA
- celebration of anniversary of Brown vs. Board of Education
- 13 Freedom Riders
- tried to use Whites Only facilities
- tremendous violence
- Diane Nash
- Nashville, TN
- Fisk University