Freedom Riders: Article Analysis

The first route I used to go about finding sources on the freedom riders was a simple Google search. The source I chose from the Internet was a page from history.com. While this article was published in 2010, it tells the stories of the violence that occurred in many places. This source tells how the original group of seven African Americans and six whites became known as the Freedom Riders, who would protest segregation throughout the South. Even though the Freedom Riders were brutally beaten they did not give up. The audience intended for this article is a person researching the topic of the Freedom Riders. It would answer many questions for me if I were finishing a research paper, such as the timeline and the impact of the freedom riders and the series of bus trips they participated in. The authority on this article is not as strong as it could be. The author listed is history.com Staff. The URL is an .com article so it …show more content…
In order to find this article, I used a database specifically aimed towards history that students have access to through Mabee Library. This article was published in the journal in 2012, so all up to date information on the Civil Rights Movement should be included. This article would be extremely relevant for my research on freedom riders because it talks about the life of blacks. The article tells the story’s that aren’t as well known and show importance of the freedom riders and the protest they participated in. The article is meant for those wanting to know more about history and is written for an educated audience. The author, Thomas J. Sugrue, is clearly identified, so the authority in this article can be considered credible. I found that this document is peer-reviewed. The author’s sole purpose seems to be to inform the readers in the Civil Rights