Analysis Of Freedom Riders: Perspective Of Margret Oswalt

Freedom Riders: Perspective of Margret Oswalt At just nineteen years old Margret Oswalt moved to Jackson Mississippi with a business degree. She got her first job working in an insurance business called Kemper Insurance Company. The company was right across the street of Trail Way Bus Station, where the freedom rider buses came through. The day the freedom riders came into Jackson, Mrs. Oswalt and her co-workers opened their window and were shocked at what they saw. The streets were crowded, the cops were everywhere, and they even had the vicious police dogs out. As soon as the buses arrived in Jackson the people were immediately taken and shoved into cattle trailers then taken to the Mississippi fair grounds. The people on these buses were the Freedom Riders. Not only were there black riders, there were also white riders who were brave enough to go …show more content…
She saw things that should have never happened. Although the events that happened in her town were cruel, we have learned from them and can now prevent them from ever happening again. The saying is if we don’t learn from our past, we are doomed to repeat it in the future. I completely disagree with the hard times the African American race had to endure during the Civil Rights Movement. No one should ever be treated the way they were treated. It is immoral and unjust. Thankfully now there are no laws that support segregation and we can live equally like God intended it to be. In my and my grandmothers opinion there should have never been segregated buses, restaurants, bathrooms, or water fountains. Everyone is created equally and no one has the right to tell another person they are not worthy to sit in a public facility. I am thankful that we don’t have to go through the same issues the people had to go through during the Civil Rights Movement. I am thankful that we now live in a world where everyone is truly created