The article discusses the history of Alabama, focusing on the summer of 1961 and the "Freedom Rides" initiative of the civil rights movement in which activists traveled across southern U.S. states on buses, testing integration enforcem...
Noun1.freedom rider- one of an interracial group of civil rights activists who rode buses through parts of the South in order to protest racial segregation civil rights activist,civil rights leader,civil rights worker- a leader of the political movement dedicated to securing equal opportunity for ...
Murphy, ``Domesticating Dissent: The Kennedys and the Freedom Rides,''Murphy, J. M. (2001) Domesticating dissent: The Kennedys and the Freedom Rides. In C. E.Morris III & S. H. Browne. Readings on the Rhetoric of Social Protest. (pp. 395-411). State College, PA: Strata Publishing,...
Most of the riders were college students; many, such as the Episcopal clergymen and contingents of Yale divinity students, had religious affiliations. Some were active in civil rights groups like the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), which initiated the Freedom Rides and was founded in 1942 o...
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To commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Freedom Rides, Greyhound is restoring a vintage bus that was in service during the civil rights movement.
Thus began the civil rights movement, which spread from the south to the north. • Later, this quiet “sit-in” became the major nonviolent direct action tactics to be used by black civil rights activists. Protests continue outside the segregated ...
The chapter reveals the violence associated with the Civil Rights Movement, the courage of African American activists (Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks, Medgar Evers) and the small minority of southern white ministers who joined them. In Montgomery, Alabama, Robert Graetz provided taxi service for de...