Freedom rides

• What was the purpose of the freedom rides?


  to see if 4 years after state transport was desegregated transport facilities were safe
• Who organised the freedom rides?

  CORE (Congress of Racial Equality)
• opposition to the freedom rides 


  • The bus was met with an angry white mob essentially everywhere
  • Passengers dragged of bus and beaten up
  • Bomb thrown into the bus
  • Ended up needed Patrolmen to escort them around
  • Hundreds of freedom riders imprisoned
• What was the freedom rides?


  • 1961
  • CORE members rode buses in protest of lack of desegregation on state transport despite it being illegal
• Effects of freedom rides


  • President Kennedy threatened to send US Marshalls to enforce desegregation on state buses
  • Heavy publicity embarrassed America internationally