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Dan Shore's 2013 opera Freedom Ride, set in New Orleans, celebrates the Freedom Riders. [150] The Boondocks aired a 2014 episode about the Freedom Rides with the title "Freedom Ride or Die". The Freedom Riders: The Civil Rights Musical is a theater musical retelling the story of the Freedom Rides. [151]
The Journey of Reconciliation, also [1] called "First Freedom Ride", was a form of nonviolent direct action to challenge state segregation laws on interstate buses in the Southern United States. [2] Bayard Rustin and 18 other men and women were the early organizers of the two-week journey that began on April 9, 1947.
Organized by the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) to dramatize the southern states' disregard of the Supreme Court rulings (Morgan v. Virginia, 1946 and Boynton v. Virginia, 1960) outlawing segregation in interstate transportation, in May 1961, the first Freedom Riders (seven black, six white, led by CORE director James Farmer) travelled together on interstate buses.
Henry "Hank" James Thomas (born August 29, 1941) is an African American civil rights activist and entrepreneur.Thomas was one of the original 13 Freedom Riders who traveled on Greyhound and Trailways buses through the South in 1961 to protest racial segregation, holding demonstrations at bus stops along the way.
Charles Person, the youngest member of the original Freedom Riders who faced racial violence to challenge segregation in interstate travel, died on Jan. 8 in Fayetteville, Georgia. He was 82. In ...
A Greyhound bus used by Freedom Riders in 1961 Credit - Bettmann Archive/Getting Images. I n the coming months, the United States Department of Health and Human Services plans to implement a newly ...
In 1961, the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) began to organize Freedom Rides. The first departed from Washington, D.C. and involved 13 black and white riders who rode into the South challenging white only lunch counters and restaurants. When they reached Anniston, Alabama one of the buses was ambushed and attacked. [1]
Bruce Carver Boynton, a civil rights pioneer from Alabama who inspired the landmark “Freedom Rides" of 1961, died Monday. Former Alabama state Sen. Hank Sanders, a friend of Boynton’s, on ...