https://padlet.com/daniel_thiem/os4d6wwbwtrm Civil Rights Movement en-us 2018-05-14 13:11:38 UTC 2025-11-02 23:49:46 UTC hello@padlet.com daniel_thiem https://padlet.com/daniel_thiem/os4d6wwbwtrm/wish/260453304 Freedom Riders were Civil Rights Activist who originally were just men, but later all groups of people that would protest Jim Crow laws in the south, by usually starting their protest in Washington D.C, and make there way to the deep south. They would sit together on interstate buses, traveling to different locations in the south, challenging Jim Crow ettiquete  ]]> 2018-05-14 13:21:45 UTC https://padlet.com/daniel_thiem/os4d6wwbwtrm/wish/260453304 daniel_thiem https://padlet.com/daniel_thiem/os4d6wwbwtrm/wish/260637012 The first freedom ride took place in 1947, where Bayard Rustin and George Houser were the leader of this where only men could participate, but this was later transformed into a more influential movement when on May 4th, 1961 the director of the Congress of Racial Equality James Farmer set up a freedom ride. 13 civil rights activist of all groups took a bus through the south. The effects of this were people being arrested for inciting a riot in North and South Carolina, along with 2 people getting beaten in Rock Hill.]]> 2018-05-14 20:34:30 UTC https://padlet.com/daniel_thiem/os4d6wwbwtrm/wish/260637012 daniel_thiem https://padlet.com/daniel_thiem/os4d6wwbwtrm/wish/260642360 In 1946 and 1960, congress concluded that segregation in interstate commerce was unconstitutional. This led to the first freedom ride in 1947, and then later freedom rides in the 1960s. From May 14th, 1961-December 10, 1961, freedom riders were moved to see if Jim Crow laws were still in effect, in addition, to see if congress's new terms were in place in the south. They shortly found out that this decisions was not respected in the south. ]]> 2018-05-14 20:55:03 UTC https://padlet.com/daniel_thiem/os4d6wwbwtrm/wish/260642360 daniel_thiem https://padlet.com/daniel_thiem/os4d6wwbwtrm/wish/260645396 Because of the intense violence from the south on freedom riders, Congress of Racial Equality stopped directing these freedom Rides. Even bus drivers did not want to do anything with these. "I only have one life and to give, and I am not going to give it to a NAACP or a CORE" said one Greyhound and Trailways driver. Luckily, the Student non-violent coordinating committee picked up this protest, with an important quote to follow from Diane Nash, "The students have decided that we can't let violence overcome. We are coming
into Birmingham to continue the Freedom Ride.”

]]> 2018-05-14 21:09:52 UTC https://padlet.com/daniel_thiem/os4d6wwbwtrm/wish/260645396 daniel_thiem https://padlet.com/daniel_thiem/os4d6wwbwtrm/wish/260648700 On May 15, 1961, The Ku Klux Klan set out an attack on the freedom riders. They broke the windows and slashed the tires. Later, a member of the KKK threw a ignition device, which started the back of the bus on fire, and blew up the fuel tank. The positive result of this was tremendous. With media picking up the story and showing it around the world, more publication was brought to the movement, and the violence used by the south was conveyed. There was a negative, after this, Kennedy attorney, General Robert Kennedy explained that both sides were at fault, and issued a "cooling down" period. ]]> 2018-05-14 21:24:31 UTC https://padlet.com/daniel_thiem/os4d6wwbwtrm/wish/260648700 daniel_thiem https://padlet.com/daniel_thiem/os4d6wwbwtrm/wish/262540847 By having more of the public be aware and against discrimination after seeing the violent and brutal actions of racist people in the south, congress needed to act in favor of the people. In addition, freedom rides showed that peaceful protest are successful, and can help the cause, and many other associations involved with the Civil Rights Movement picked up on this. The Birmingham Campaign of 1963 was one of the few that used similar techniques as the freedom riders. Peacefully protesting was one of those techniques, and having the world watch as citizens of this racially discriminating cities use violence.]]> 2018-05-22 01:22:45 UTC https://padlet.com/daniel_thiem/os4d6wwbwtrm/wish/262540847 daniel_thiem https://padlet.com/daniel_thiem/os4d6wwbwtrm/wish/262541685 https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/freedom-rides

https://www.npr.org/2006/01/12/5149667/get-on-the-bus-the-freedom-riders-of-1961

http://amhistory.si.edu/onthemove/collection/object_546.html

https://www.nps.gov/frri/planyourvisit/index.htm

http://www.nhd.uscourts.gov/sites/default/files/ci/exhibits/tour/floor-three-exhibits/the-bus-rides-of-protest.aspx

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