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Freedom Rides | History, Facts, &Significance | Britannica Freedom Rides, political protests against segregation by blacks and whites who rode buses together through the U.S. South in 1961. Convinced that segregationists would violently protest this action, the Freedom Riders hoped to provoke the federal enforcement of the Supreme Court’s Boynton v. … Meet the Players: Other Figures | American Experience Eugene "Bull" Connor was Birmingham’s Commissioner of Public Safety in 1961 when the Freedom Riders came to town. He was known as an ultra-segregationist with close ties to the KKK.
Web site companion to the film The children shall lead. Pages on the site document the history of the Freedom Rides, provide a timeline of selected events from 1900 through 1968, provide transcripts of interviews with key players as well as photographs, list relevant books and websites, and link to curriculum documents saved in PDF form.
Web site companion to the film The children shall lead. Pages on the site document the history of the Freedom Rides, provide a timeline of selected events from 1900 through 1968, provide transcripts of interviews with key players as well as photographs, list relevant books and websites, and link to curriculum documents saved in PDF form. The Freedom Riders met in the basement of the Rev. Ralph Abernathy’s church and got on the phone with Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy to call for help. Kennedy dispatched the National Guard, who used tear gas to disperse the violent crowd, and helped to escort the people inside the church to safety.
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