11/20/2023 0 Comments Freedom riders![]() ![]() They were called the Freedom Riders, and award-winning filmmaker Stanley Nelson’s documentary charts the course of their eight-month act of nonviolent protest-an act that changed the course of history.īased on Raymond Arsenault’s book Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice, Nelson’s documentary provides an in-depth look at the central characters involved in the Freedom Rides: the riders themselves, the journalists who witnessed and reported on this historical event, and the political figures and government officials confronted with a growing resistance to the status quo. For simply exercising their federally granted right to travel on interstate buses and use public bus facilities and waiting areas, these activists endured violent mobs, beatings, and imprisonment. in any even marginally healthy society?”īetween May and December of 1961, more than 400 Americans, black and white, northern and southern, and ranging in age and religious affiliation risked their lives by riding Greyhound buses through the Deep South. ![]() Except, of course, that they would sit randomly on the buses in integrated pairs and in the stations they would use the waiting room facilities casually, ignoring the white/colored signs. CORE would be sending an integrated team-black and white together-from the nation’s capital to New Orleans on public transportation. simplicity itself in any sane, even half-civilized society it would have been completely innocuous, hardly worth a second thought or meriting any comment at all. ![]()
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