Freedom+Rides-+notes

Freedom Rides-First Hand Account
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Drew: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/eyesontheprize/story/05_riders.html
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Drew: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/freedomriders/

Hawoon: http://americanhistory.abc-clio.com/Search/Display/1455817?terms=freedom+rides

Hawoon: http://www.core-online.org/History/freedom%20rides.htm

**PBS Eyes on the Prize Notes:** -The Kennedy Administration tried to ban interstate travel segregation twice, but Southern states disregarded these rules. In 1961, the Congress of Racial Equality sent a large group of mixed-race people to travel on bus trips into Dixie, Alabama. These people were called the Freedom Riders. The group faced minor resistance in the upper south, but when they reached Alabama, violence started. -Ku Klux Klan members attacked passengers getting off the buses in Birmingham, and segregationists firebombed a bus in Anniston, Alabama. In addition, General Robert Kennedy said he would call for federal help and police escorts if Governor John Patterson could not control the unrest and maintain order. Despite his promises, there were no police escorts from the Birmingham to Montgomery portion of the trip, and therefore the riders were assaulted as they entered Montgomery. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">-U.S. marshalls and the Alabama National Guard are called in to help. The Freedom Riders enter Mississippi safely with heavy police protection, but they are arrested in Jackson. The Congress of Racial Equality continues to send freedom riders, and 300 more riders are arrested in Mississippi. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">-The Freedom Riders win their struggle when Kennedy gets the Interstate Commerce Commission to ban interstate travel segregation.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 29px;">**PBS American Experience, Freedom Riders Notes:** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">-The original Congress of Racial Equality Freedom Ride ran from Washington D.C, through Richmond, Charlotte, Sumter, Atlanta and Birmingham to finally get to New Orleans. These consisted of 13 men, women, and children, both black and white, who were trying to test the segregated travel facilities in the South. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">-Riders are arrested in Charlotte, North Carolina and begin to face resistance in the South. They meet with Martin Luther King Jr. in Atlanta on May 13. One of the buses is firebombed outside of Anniston, Alabama and the other bus continues to Birmingham, where many riders are brutally beaten by a Ku Klux Klan mob. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">-The Freedom Riders complete their journey to New Orleans on a plane protected by the Kennedy Administration. Federal troops are called in when freedom riders and 1500 supporters are trapped inside the First Baptist Church in Montgomery by an angry mob. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">-When the Riders enter Mississippi, they are arrested for what they say is their own protection. Freedom Riders continue to come into Jackson, and they are all sent to the jails through the summer of 1961.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 29px;">**ABC-Clio Freedom Riders Notes:** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">-Freedom Riders were series of organized interstate bus rides meant to directly confront discriminatory Jim Crow Laws found in the southern states. These were made up of students, veteran civil rights activists. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">- The Freedom Riders were inspired by the Journey of Reconciliation, which was an action caused by the members of the Congress of the Racial Equality (CORE). <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">- Groups of riders would purchase for long bus journeys that passed through various Southern states and hhey would ignore all Jim Crow laws. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">- This act was done in a peaceful way to uphold the federal law against dicrimination. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">- At first the CORE action didn't attract the widespread publicity that it's leaders expected. As a result, there were minor jail sentences for the participants.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 150%;">**Core-Online Notes:** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">- The first freedom ride was in May, 1961, when seven blacks and six whites left Washington D.C on two public buses bound for the deep south. They were testing the supreme court rulings. This declared segregation in interstate bus and rail stations unconstitutional. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">- At first, the punishments were weak, but later on they were harshly beaten. Some of the buses were burned and many whites attacked them. As a result, most of the riders in Birmingham, Alabama to the New Orleans were evacuated <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">- Letting violence end the trip would send the wrong message to the American citizens so they reinforced the riders to volunteers and the trip continued. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">-The extreme violence and indifference of local police led to a massive outcry of support of the riders. This put pressure on John F. Kennedy to end the violence. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">- They encountered brutality and some went to jail, but it created publicizes and inspired many people to join the act. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">- Later on, the protest spread to train stations and airports across the South. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">- The Interstate Commerce Commission created rules prohibiting segregated transportation facilities.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 150%;">**My Ebook Script:**

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 13pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 19px;">The Kennedy Administration had previously tried to ban interstate travel segregation twice, but Southern states disregarded these rules. In response, in May 1961, the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) sent a group of seven African American and six white men, women and children from Washington D.C. on two public buses to the deep South. These courageous volunteers were called the Freedom Riders. Their actions were meant to challenge harsh Jim Crows Laws found in Southern states and test Supreme Court rulings. The Freedom Riders faced little resistance in the upper South, but violence began when they entered Alabama. Ku Klux Klan members brutally beat passengers getting off buses in Birmingham, Alabama and segregationists firebombed a bus in Anniston, Alabama. Governor John Patterson could not control the unrest and maintain order in his state, so General Robert Kennedy said he would call for federal help and police escorts if problems got worse. Eventually, federal troops were called in when freedom riders and 1500 supporters were trapped inside the First Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama by an angry mob. The Freedom Riders entered Jackson, Mississippi safely with heavy police protection, but they were arrested “for their own protection,” and put in jail. Despite problems, the CORE continued to send freedom riders to the South because they believed letting violence end their trip would send the wrong message to Americans. 300 more people were arrested in Mississippi through the summer of 1961. After months of dedication, the Freedom Riders won their struggle when President Kennedy got the Interstate Commerce Commission to ban interstate travel segregation. The journey was completed their journey to New Orleans on a plane protected by the Kennedy Administration.