The Freedom Riders

About two hundred years ago, after signing the "Declaration of Independence", slavery was no longer permitted, but the US was still isolated. Separation continues in many public places, especially the south. At the moment, separation is legal. In 1892, the Supreme Court ruled that the province could separate White and Black as long as the service was equivalent. On May 4, 1961, a diverse group of 13 brave free knights embarked on a bus trip to the south to challenge the isolation of the bus terminal.

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 the second day, photographs of a burning greyhound bus and a bloodshed rider were posted on the cover of national and international newspapers and gathered international attention to the cause of free knights and the state of the American race . CORE officials could not find bus drivers who agreed to transport integrated groups, they decided to give up freeride. However, SNCC activist Diane Nash (1938 -) organized a group of ten students from Nashville Tennessee to continue the game. The prosecutor general of Robert Kennedy (1925 - 68), the brother of President John F. Kennedy (1917 - 63), told a driver between Johan Patterson (1921 -) of the Governor of Alabama and a bus company I began negotiations to get it. State protection New free rider group. On May 20th, these vehicles finally recovered with a greyhound bus which brought Birmingham under the escort of the police.

Free Knight The first 13 free riders took a bus to Washington, DC, New Orleans, Louisiana to dispel apartheid in public accommodations (hotels, motels, restaurants, cinemas, stadiums, concert halls) It was. . In 1946, the Supreme Court banned the separation of interstate buses, but black people are still sitting behind the southern bus, and the use of the 'white only' washroom in Southpia is not allowed. In 1961, passengers on the first bus were attacked by angry mobs in Anniston and Birmingham in Alabama. Outside Anniston, the second bus was hit by a fire bomb after the tire was cut. With this intense incident, President John F. Kennedy urged Ridder to provide federal protection to ensure that the rider headed to Jackson, Mississippi. According to Chapter 2 of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, discrimination in these places is prohibited.