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Amendment 9th

Amendment 14th

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This cartoon is representing the African American community not wanting to get on the bus to segregation. The time period of segregation was awful and treated blacks very unfair.

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The Freedom Rides influenced other groups like the SNCC to continue the freedom rides.

As the violence toward the freedom riders continued more and more people like Diane Nash started to stand up to help change the civil rights movement for the better.

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The court case Morgan vs. Virginia, (1946) suggested segregated bus seating was unconstitutional.
Boynton vs Virginia case (1960), overturned a judgment convicting an African American law student for trespassing by being in a restaurant in a bus terminal which was "whites only". They impacted American society by spreading the idea. Over the next few months, several hundred Freedom Riders engaged in similar actions.

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One of the major leaders with the Freedom Riders.

Encouraged nonviolent protests.

Best known Civil Rights Movement leader.

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Student activists made a point that "If the Freedom Riders end because of violence, then our freedom may end because of that violence."

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Attempted to integrate facilities at bus terminals along the way into the Deep South. Also, the African American activists hopped on a bus and traveled around America to boycott. Many died, got arrested, and were injured by doing this. Others did not participate in this strategy.

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https://youtu.be/uCkVj6pRa34

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May 21, 1971: Were already in deep South John Seigenthaler was sent to help them back home safely.
May 22, 1971: Some students in Nashville decided to join the the freedom riders.
May 23, 1971: Headed back to Washington to replaced wounded riders.
Their rides continued all throughout the Civil Rights Movement.

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May 4, 1961: The first ride took place led by a CORE director.

May 17, 1961: The riders arrived in New Orleans, Louisiana to celebrate the anniversary of the Brown V. Board decision.

May 18, 1971: they arrived in SC, one man was arrested.

May 19, 1971: Arrived in Atlanta, Georgia and received speech from MLK Jr.

May 20, 1971: one bus of riders were fire bombed by a mob(Alabama). Second bus of riders arrived and were attacked by angry people(Birmingham). Marked the turning point!!

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On May 4, 1961, a group of 13 African American and white civil rights activists launched the Freedom Rides, a series of bus trips through the American South to protest segregation in interstate bus terminals. The Freedom Riders, who were recruited by the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), a U.S civil rights group, departed from Washington, D.C., and attempted to integrate facilities at bus terminals along the way into the Deep South.
Read more-  www.history.com/topics/black-history/freedom-rides

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Was only 19 at the time of the Freedom Rides took place.

"Other Freedom Riders recalled his quick wit and hard-nosed political realism from their shared time at Parchman"

He became one of the leading voices for the black power movement.

1967 he became a prime minister for the Black Panther group.

Read more: http://www.oprah.com/oprahshow/leaders-of-the-freedom-rider-movement#ixzz4bK99rCcI

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Young pastor of First Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama.

He and Dr. MLK were the key leaders of the 1995-56 bus boycott in Montgomery.

"After Dr. King's assassination on April 4, 1968, Abernathy took up the leadership of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) Poor People's Campaign and led the 1968 March on Washington."

Read more: http://www.oprah.com/oprahshow/leaders-of-the-freedom-rider-movement#ixzz4bK8ENbbm"

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According to Oprah.com,"More than 400 Americans risked their lives during the 1961 Freedom Rides, but behind the scenes, a few visionary leaders offered guidance, protection and prayer."

Read more: http://www.oprah.com/oprahshow/leaders-of-the-freedom-rider-movement#ixzz4bK3ISwVw

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1. Rev. Ralph Abernathy

2. Stokely Carmichael

3. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

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Freedom Rides were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States in 1961 and subsequent years in order to challenge the non-enforcement of the United States Supreme Court decisions Morgan v. Virginia (1946) and Boynton v. Virginia (1960), which ruled that segregated public.