Freedom Riders
Standing up for the right thing or Arrogant?
The fight for freedom!
One of the monumental efforts during the Civil Rights Movement was known as the Freedom Rides.
Who were the Freedom Riders? What were they trying to do?
The Freedom Riders were a group of black activists who were fighting for equality and anti-segregation around America. The first Freedom Ride began on May 4, 1961. Led by CORE Director James Farmer, 13 riders (seven black, six white, including Genevieve Hughes, William E. Harbour, and Ed Blankenheim) left Washington, DC, on Greyhound and Trailways buses.
Leaders of the movement
Diane Nash
The Freedom Rides was an action that became a powerful and compelling movement. When Nash and her fellow students discovered that the Freedom Riders had decided to cut their trip short at the Birmingham stop; the Nashville students, primarily Nash, promptly decided that they would finish the trip.[
John Lewis
John Lewis was the youngest of the Big Six civil rights leaders and the chairman of the SNCC from 1963 to 1966, some of the most tumultuous years of the 1960s Civil Rights Movement
Martin Luther King Jnr
Martin Luther King Jnr was at the fore front of the start to the Civil Rights Movements. He was a religious man and reverend of his church. In all the protests he encouraged his fellow back people to be disciplined and have a non-violent approach.