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Freedom Riders.
The freedom riders were civil rigths activists who fought with non-violence demonstrations to test the Supreme Courts decisions "Boynton v. Virginia" and "Morgan v. Virginia". Both decisions holdings where that segregation and discrimination in public transportation were illegal. The point with the demonstrations were to get the black the same rights as a white had.
The freedom riders were inspired by the Journey of Reconciliation. The Journey of Reconciliation was a form of non-violent direct action to test an earlier Supreme Court ruling that didn't allow race discrimination when you rode in an interstate bus.
The first Freedom Ride began on may 4. 1961 led by the director of CORE (Congress of racial equality), James Farmer and his spokeswoman Dianne Nash.
Thirteen joined the freedom Ride, seven black and six white, many of the people who joined were in their 40s and 50s.
There were two buses. They were planned to drive into the states Virginia, North and South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama and Mississipi and then in the ending end with a rally in New Orleans, Louisiana. It went well until Alabama, When the bus drove into Anniston, Alabama on May 14, a mob of angry men from the Ku klux klan, there is a group of people who is against Jews, homosexuality, blacks and Catholics, attacked them. They slashed the tires and set fire to the bus then the mob held the doors shut trying to burn the riders to death. Either an exploding fuel tank or an undercover state investigator with a revolver caused the mob to flee allowing the riders to escape the bus. The riders were when brutally beaten as they fled the burning bus and only because of warning by highway patrolmen prevented the riders from being lynched.
This episodes also happened in Birmingham, Alabama later that day when they once again got beaten. And in Montgomery, Alabama the 20th of May.
While it happened older more conservative (Conservative means you believe in old traditional ways of doing things. You're not really into trying new stuff.) civil right organizations urged Dianne to stop the rides but she refused and then called CORE (the Committee of Racial Equality), SNCC (the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee) and the SCLC (the Southern Christian Leadership Conference) trying to bring more freedom riders on board.
When Martin Luther King JR. who was the leader of SCLC heard about what had happened in Anniston, Birmingham and Montgomery he organized a crisis meeting in the Baptist church. 1200 people showed up. The church was then attacked with grenades and teargas. Martin went out and called the president John Kennedy to tell what was happening. Kennedy then sent some soldiers out to calm the masses.
Alarmed by the violence the president John F. Kennedy sent his brother the Attorney General Robert Kennedy to make a deal with the state officials from Mississipi so the freedom riders would have safe passage to the city Jackson, Mississipi. In exchange the riders would be arrested when they would arrive in Jackson. Soon the jails in Jackson where filled up with over 350 freedom riders who all where arrested for "breach of peace" and given a six-months sentence. The riders refused to pay bail and many of them where then sent to the newly built maximum-security facility at Parchman Farm. There they were not treatent very well but they would not give up. Instead they responded by singing freedom songs and when they refused to stop singing the songs the guards took their blankets so they froze in the nights. Hunger strikes also started and weakened many of the riders physically but they did not dampen their moral resolve.
Upon the release from jail the freedom riders continued the efforts for trying to end segregation in the south.
Five months after the first Freedom Rides began, the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) together with Robert Kennedy issued a new Federal order.
The order banned segregation at all interstate public facilities about race, color or religion.
My opinion of the freedom riders:
I think it was a good idé to make the rides because people began to think about the decisions about no discrimination that didn't was held. Also i think that the riders were very brave because even when they got beaten and knew that they would get beated again they still wouldn't give up but fought for what they thought was right.
I behøves selvfølgelig ikke rette alle fejl men hvis der er nogle "store" fejl eller noget forkert kunne jeg godt tænke mig lige at få det af vide. Hvis i mener der mangler noget eller har en idé om noget jeg kan tilføje må i også gerne fortælle mig det. Alt i alt hvis der er noget der kan ændres til noget mere positivt kunne der være virkelig dejligt og få af vide.
På forhånd tak.
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