"we had mostly trouble, then it turned into a struggle halfway across alabam and that hound broke down and left us all stranded in downtown birmingham."- chuck berry. One freedom rider once said "If not us then who? If not now then when? Will someone else's children have to risk their lives instead of ours. And his name was john Lewis and he was respected through out all the freedom riders he was even mentioned in Marten Luther kings speech. Some of the freedom riders weren't even out of high school and some were just in college and some left college just to join this civil rights movement. People all over would read or see this on the news and were ether against it (manly in the south) or would agree with it.Or some people would be neutral or not care. Some people got beat up so badly during the protesting that the their quit were hospitalized or
"we had mostly trouble, then it turned into a struggle halfway across alabam and that hound broke down and left us all stranded in downtown birmingham."- chuck berry. One freedom rider once said "If not us then who? If not now then when? Will someone else's children have to risk their lives instead of ours. And his name was john Lewis and he was respected through out all the freedom riders he was even mentioned in Marten Luther kings speech. Some of the freedom riders weren't even out of high school and some were just in college and some left college just to join this civil rights movement. People all over would read or see this on the news and were ether against it (manly in the south) or would agree with it.Or some people would be neutral or not care. Some people got beat up so badly during the protesting that the their quit were hospitalized or