by Walker Kleiman https://padlet.com/walkoe12/58ovg9zee9e1 en-us 2016-05-24 17:44:29 UTC 2024-05-16 09:41:15 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padletuploads.blob.core.windows.net/aws/115483429/576529602fbb0ee762b63bc2b22317d87cc779a8/ba03fba8cdce3ff61ee9f22060964fbe.jpg Most people involved with the Freedom Riders were associated with CORE (the Congress of Racial Equality). James L. Farmer (the founder of CORE) said,“Courage, after all, is not being unafraid, but doing what needs to be done in spite of fear. https://padlet.com/walkoe12/58ovg9zee9e1/wish/112383636 2016-05-24 17:47:36 UTC https://padlet.com/walkoe12/58ovg9zee9e1/wish/112383636 In the 1960's the Supreme Court ruled that segregation was illegal in all buses and bus terminals and CORE wanted to test if the  people of America followed this law.  https://padlet.com/walkoe12/58ovg9zee9e1/wish/112383891 2016-05-24 17:48:34 UTC https://padlet.com/walkoe12/58ovg9zee9e1/wish/112383891 The Freedom Riders wanted to be peaceful, nonviolent protesters with a goal, to end segregation. https://padlet.com/walkoe12/58ovg9zee9e1/wish/112384499 2016-05-24 17:51:43 UTC https://padlet.com/walkoe12/58ovg9zee9e1/wish/112384499 This was the route the Freedom Riders took to enforce the Federal Governments anti-segregation laws in the South. https://padlet.com/walkoe12/58ovg9zee9e1/wish/112384910  ]]> 2016-05-24 17:53:51 UTC https://padlet.com/walkoe12/58ovg9zee9e1/wish/112384910 Diane Nash  https://padlet.com/walkoe12/58ovg9zee9e1/wish/112386637 2016-05-24 18:02:24 UTC https://padlet.com/walkoe12/58ovg9zee9e1/wish/112386637 James Zwerg was a white man who was attacked after getting off the freedom bus. https://padlet.com/walkoe12/58ovg9zee9e1/wish/112387392 2016-05-24 18:06:02 UTC https://padlet.com/walkoe12/58ovg9zee9e1/wish/112387392 The Freedom riders were made up of both African Americans and whites together. https://padlet.com/walkoe12/58ovg9zee9e1/wish/112412281 2016-05-24 20:52:34 UTC https://padlet.com/walkoe12/58ovg9zee9e1/wish/112412281 Those who were for the continuation of segregation threw rocks and attacked the freedom riders https://padlet.com/walkoe12/58ovg9zee9e1/wish/112412754 2016-05-24 20:57:11 UTC https://padlet.com/walkoe12/58ovg9zee9e1/wish/112412754 The director of CORE was James Farmer https://padlet.com/walkoe12/58ovg9zee9e1/wish/112413594 2016-05-24 21:06:45 UTC https://padlet.com/walkoe12/58ovg9zee9e1/wish/112413594 A quote by Diane Nash a leader of the Freedom Riders. https://padlet.com/walkoe12/58ovg9zee9e1/wish/112566655 2016-05-25 17:29:47 UTC https://padlet.com/walkoe12/58ovg9zee9e1/wish/112566655 The Freedom Rides  https://padlet.com/walkoe12/58ovg9zee9e1/wish/112567989 By Lizzie Killenbec, Gretchen Heisinger, Jon Kabes, and Walker Kleimen]]> 2016-05-25 17:37:02 UTC https://padlet.com/walkoe12/58ovg9zee9e1/wish/112567989 https://padlet.com/walkoe12/58ovg9zee9e1/wish/112568689 2016-05-25 17:40:55 UTC https://padlet.com/walkoe12/58ovg9zee9e1/wish/112568689 Alabama https://padlet.com/walkoe12/58ovg9zee9e1/wish/112569324 The Freedom Riders were violently beaten for their actions. The police even granted members of the KKK 15 minutes of immunity. The Freedom Riders could not stop there they had to keep traveling to achieve their goal.]]> 2016-05-25 17:43:57 UTC https://padlet.com/walkoe12/58ovg9zee9e1/wish/112569324 College students specifically from University of California, Berkeley volunteered to go down South with the Freedom Riders and help fight against segregation. walkoe12 https://padlet.com/walkoe12/58ovg9zee9e1/wish/112570511 2016-05-25 17:50:03 UTC https://padlet.com/walkoe12/58ovg9zee9e1/wish/112570511 This is a plaque of what happened during the Freedom Rides in Birmingham, Alabama https://padlet.com/walkoe12/58ovg9zee9e1/wish/112571110  ]]> 2016-05-25 17:53:31 UTC https://padlet.com/walkoe12/58ovg9zee9e1/wish/112571110 CORE helped black Americans gain economic opportunities by giving them access to education, jobs, and decent housing. walkoe12 https://padlet.com/walkoe12/58ovg9zee9e1/wish/112572291 2016-05-25 17:59:41 UTC https://padlet.com/walkoe12/58ovg9zee9e1/wish/112572291 This is PBS documentary shows the courageous civil rights activists part of the Freedom Riders and the obstacles they faced fighting segregation in the south. walkoe12 https://padlet.com/walkoe12/58ovg9zee9e1/wish/112572979 2016-05-25 18:03:15 UTC https://padlet.com/walkoe12/58ovg9zee9e1/wish/112572979 Political Cartoons of The Freedom Rides https://padlet.com/walkoe12/58ovg9zee9e1/wish/112725944 2016-05-26 17:26:19 UTC https://padlet.com/walkoe12/58ovg9zee9e1/wish/112725944