It is the year of 1961, and the Jim Crow Law has codified how blacks were treated under the law. “Separate but equal.”, and this was ruled by Plessy v Ferguson 1896. "Travel in the segregated South for black people was humiliating... The very fact that there were separate facilities was to say to black people and white people that blacks were so subhuman and so inferior that we could not even use the public facilities that white people used." (Diane Nash)
The Freedom Riders were a group of people from the Congress of Racial Equality, also known as CORE. Their goal was to motivate desegregation of public transportation in the south. These bus rides were called “Freedom Rides”, and the first Freedom ride began on May 4, 1961. All thirteen of them boarded two public buses headed towards the south from Washington D.C. On the first week, the Freedom Riders received minor hostility, but once …show more content…
The Freedom Riders had more volunteers, and they continued their mission. The remaining group left Birmingham to Montgomery, and when they arrived thousands of whites brutally and extremely attacked the CORE members. The lack of police enforcement and security pressured President Kennedy to help. But the journey didn’t end there. They continued onto Mississippi even though they encountered more brutality, and many of them served jail terms. Although the Freedom Riders were treated terribly, they sent out a powerful message nationally about the importance of prohibiting segregation on transportation facilities. They showed America how segregation and racism had impacted America, and the power of nonviolent protests. In the final analysis, it took over a decade for desegregation to be passed, but because of the Freedom Riders a lot more people nationally got the message and supported the civil rights
The Freedom Riders were a group of people from the Congress of Racial Equality, also known as CORE. Their goal was to motivate desegregation of public transportation in the south. These bus rides were called “Freedom Rides”, and the first Freedom ride began on May 4, 1961. All thirteen of them boarded two public buses headed towards the south from Washington D.C. On the first week, the Freedom Riders received minor hostility, but once …show more content…
The Freedom Riders had more volunteers, and they continued their mission. The remaining group left Birmingham to Montgomery, and when they arrived thousands of whites brutally and extremely attacked the CORE members. The lack of police enforcement and security pressured President Kennedy to help. But the journey didn’t end there. They continued onto Mississippi even though they encountered more brutality, and many of them served jail terms. Although the Freedom Riders were treated terribly, they sent out a powerful message nationally about the importance of prohibiting segregation on transportation facilities. They showed America how segregation and racism had impacted America, and the power of nonviolent protests. In the final analysis, it took over a decade for desegregation to be passed, but because of the Freedom Riders a lot more people nationally got the message and supported the civil rights