The Freedom Riders: Sacrifices in the South

On May 4, 1961, Freedom Knight left the entire city of Washington DC northern cities, and began a bold journey of isolated southern whole southern part (WGBH). An integrated white and black citizen took the bus across different towns to test the effectiveness of the newly designed abolition of apartheid at the end of the bus and its surrounding area (Gari). The first two free ride buses established by the racial equality conference (Garry) or CORE include 13 journalists and 3 journalists, recording historical events essential to the civil rights movement I will.

Freedom rider was a group of white and African-American civil rights activists who took part in a free ride and participated in a southern bus tour in 1961 to protest the isolated bus terminal. Liberty Knights is trying to use the "white restricted" washroom and lunch counter at bus stops in Alabama, South Carolina, and other Southern states. These groups face the arrest of police along their route - and the terrible violence of white protesters - but they are attracting international attention to their causes.

On May 4, 1961, a group of 13 African-American and Caucasian human rights activists began a series of bus trips throughout South America to protest free-ride tours, isolation of the interstate bus terminal did. . Freedom Cavaliers, recruited by the American Civil Rights Organization 's Racial Equality Meeting (CORE) left Washington DC and tried to integrate the bus station facility into the Shennan district. An African-American free knight tries to use a "washroom only" washroom and a lunch counter. The organization encountered enormous violence among white protesters on the way, but it also raised international attention to their cause. In the coming months, hundreds of free knights took part in a similar strategy. In September 1961, the Interstate Commerce Commission announced a regulation prohibiting isolation of bus stops and train stops nationwide.

On May 4, 1961, a group of 13 activists took a series of bus trips in the south of the United States to protest the isolation of interstate terminals. Ten days later, the first freely knighted greyhound bus arrived in Anniston, Alabama, and was immediately surrounded by about 200 white protesters. After someone threw a bomb on the bus, the driver ran away, but was attacked by an angry crowd and beaten. Fierce reaction pulled the attention of the international community, and other riders took this action. As of September, the Interstate Commerce Committee enacted regulations prohibiting separation of domestic bus stations and train stations.