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The only strategies the freedom riders used was to perform a disarmingly simple act. They sacrificed their safety for equality. They went into the most dangerous part of America for blacks at that time to make a statement. They didn't go in with violence . They peacefully drove through these down south cities and they were met with a great threat . The police in most of these cities encouraged klan members to attack the riders . They wanted to send a message that segregation will continue and that the riders efforts were pointless.

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Boynton v. Virginia - Supreme Court case that ruled segregation in public transportation illegal because it violated the Interstate Commerce Act. The outlawing of this act led directly to the freedom riders.
Morgan v. Virginia  -  Supreme court case Ruled segregation on Interstate buses illegal. This also violated the Interstate Commerce Act. Leading to the Freedom Riders.

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The Freedom riders lead to many new movements for civil rights. The Birmingham Campaign of 1963, for example, were peaceful demonstrations to protest segregation withing public facilities in the city.  They had lunch counter sit-ins, marches on City hall and boycotts on downtown merchants. There was also the SNCC & SCLC 1965 Selma to Montgomery Marches. These marches called for the passage of national voting rights legislation. Both of these movements used the same ideas as the Freedom riders. They both pitted sympathetic activists against violent segregationist foes while the world looked on.

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The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) is an African American civil rights  organization in the United States that played a pivotal role for African Americans in the Civil Rights Movement . Founded in 1942, CORE was one of the "Big Four" civil rights organizations, along with the SCLC, the SNCC, and the NAACP. Its stated mission is "to bring about equality for all people regardless of race, creed, sex, age, disability, sexual orientation, religion or ethnic background."

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This political cartoon is actually about the Montgomery Bus Boycott. This 13- month mass protest lead to the Supreme Court ruling segregation on public buses unconstitutional. The freedom riders decided to test this non- enforcement ruling by riding through the segregated south.

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Rosa Louise McCauley Parks (February 4, 1913 – October 24, 2005) was an activist in the Civil Rights Movement , whom the United States Congress called "the first lady of civil rights" and "the mother of the freedom movement".[1] Her birthday, February 4, and the day she was arrested, December 1, have both become Rosa Parks Day, commemorated in California and Missouri (February 4), and Ohio and Oregon (December 1).

On December 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, Parks refused to obey bus driver James F. Blake's order to give up her seat in the colored section to a white passenger, after the white section was filled.

Most well known freedom rider. Face of the Movement.

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Ralph David Abernathy, Sr. (March 11, 1926 – April 17, 1990) was a leader of the Civil Rights Movement, a minister, and a close friend of Martin Luther King Jr.. In 1955, he collaborated with King to create the Montgomery Improvement Association, which would lead to the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

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Freedom rides were peaceful protest. While the freedom riders rode throughout the south they were attacked. They were most brutally attacked in Montgomery and Birmingham, Alabama.  Their basic rights were violated. They were not equal among their white counterparts. Their basic rights of freedom to move and protection by the law were ignored.  The officers in these cities did little to protect them. Most of the political leaders in these cities encouraged segregationists to attack the riders when they arrived.

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The first Freedom rides took place on May 4th, 1961. 7 black & 6 white students left Washington D.C. bound for the deep south intended to test the supreme courts ruling that declared segregation on public transport unconstitutional. Freedom rides were a series of non-violent protest that were meant to challenge segregation on the public transport system.