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Freedom Riders
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Freedom Riders Mind Map
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freedom
civilrights
history
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Elizabeth Joyce
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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
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