The Freedom Riders (1): 1961 Effort to Challenge Segregated Bus System
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The Freedom Riders: New Documentary Recounts Historic 1961 Effort to Challenge Segregated Bus System in the Deep South
The International Civil Rights Center and Museum opens today in Greensboro, North Carolina at the site of the historic 1960 Woolworths sit-in. To mark the start of Black History Month, we turn to the story of another group of young people who were inspired by the success of the nonviolent strategy of the Greensboro sit-in. Starting in May of 1961, mixed groups of black and white students began taking interstate buses into the Deep South, risking their lives to challenge segregation. They called themselves the Freedom Riders. White mobs responded with violence. One bus was set on fire with the Freedom Riders. Numerous Freedom Riders were brutally beaten and hospitalized. We speak to Stanley Nelson, the director of the new documentary The Freedom Riders that premiered at Sundance last week. We also speak to two of the original Freedom Riders, Bernard Lafayette and Jim Zwerg.
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nellie2581 3 months ago
In the Atlanta Way...NORTHSIDE ATLANTA PUBLIC SCHOOLS were never integrated...the segregation remains within the walls of the NORTHSIDE APS schools. Team 1 - Team 2 - Team 3 ...The groups are judged by the students as SMART, AVERAGE and DUMB ---- WHITE, MIXED, AND BLACK. ATLANTA can't re-segregate on the northside because they are already segregated at the middle school and high school levels. NEIGHBORHOOD SCHOOLS are the Atlanta Way- and internal transfers hide the SECRETS IN APS.
TopSchoolAtlanta 6 months ago
@bubblinbrownsugar616 I was a little white kid when the civil rights movement picked up steam. Our parents were not evil, but they were wretchedly ignorant. My mother once told me the "negroes" should just chill out and wait their turn to be accepted by white people like the Italians (us), the Irish, the Jews. When I think back...wait their turn! The first black slaves were brought here in the early seventeenth century. When I saw those crackers beating on peaceful demonstrators I knew...
Asskicker32294 7 months ago
What a brilliant man!
lissalives 8 months ago
I swear if this documentary does not win an award....
I have never been so mad,glad,disgusted and thankful at the same time watching a doc. As a 23 year old black person, I found it easy for me to watch that pathetic crowd of white southerners and just want to say "fuck all white people". However I realize you can't let one bad apple spoil the whole bunch. Those white F. riders didn't have to risk their lives. They were free to do whatever but they did so others could enjoy the freedom and
bubblinbrownsugar616 9 months ago
equality that this country claims it can gives to all who arrive. I am VERY grateful for their courage and it really fills my heart with pride that they took action as well. Sad thing is though the bigotry of the South still exists only this time Muslims are the target. Once again, people need to not let one bad apple spoil the whole bunch.
bubblinbrownsugar616 9 months ago
I did a history day project on tis yay! It was a blast but jsad at the same time bitter sweet!
Ahamari651 9 months ago
@chica650100 I think it's good that your Teacher is sharing this with you, because America tries to hide the fact that we had some very evil racists people, and some of them had the nerve to claim to be christians. I thank God for people who are not afraid to take a stand against this evil. It is evil when you will kill someone because of the color of their skin.
BronzeSista 9 months ago 2
@RAIDERS7009 This supposed god clearly favors whites. In the end we are all human beings who answer to eachother because we share space and the best way to enjoy this one life is by refusing to let idiotic beliefs continue.
clipsryan 9 months ago
@Salvatore403 Ask religion. We all come from Africa but you have racist people that insist on giving "violent" blacks the excuse that they're violent because of their skin color regardless of the whites trying to kill them for standing up for what American liberty means. You have a race stealing people from their country then getting pissed they're still here. Other countries have their terrible past but they look at us and say to themselvs "I thought America was about freedom.".
clipsryan 9 months ago