Eckelmann, Susan
Description
Encyclopedia article about the 1961 Freedom Rides, public bus trips undertaken by racially integrated groups through the Deep South to test the enforcement of a newly enacted court order prohibiting segregation in interstate bus terminals. The riders were met with hostility and violence in a number of states, but they encountered some of the worst violence in Alabama. Civil authorities at the state and local levels actively refrained from protecting the participants from violent mobs, forcing the federal government to intervene. The nonviolent protests played a key role in publicizing the hostility facing the civil rights movement.The Civil Rights Digital Library received support from a National Leadership Grant for Libraries awarded to the University of Georgia by the Institute of Museum and Library Services for the aggregation and enhancement of partner metadata.
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Digital Library of GeorgiaKeywords
- African Americans
- Alabama
- Anniston
- Arrest
- Assault And Battery
- Birmingham
- Bombings
- Bus Lines
- Bus Terminals
- Buses
- Civil Rights
- Civil Rights Workers
- Compliance
- Congress Of Racial Equality
- Crimes Against
- Direct Action
- Discrimination
- Discrimination In Restaurants
- Federal State Controversies
- Freedom Rides, 1961
- Government
- Government, Resistance To
- Greyhound Lines
- History
- Imprisonment
- Incendiary Bombs
- Interstate Commerce
- Intervention (Federal Government)
- Intimidation
- Jails
- Ku Klux Klan (1915)
- Mobs
- Montgomery
- Nonviolence
- Offenses Against The Person
- Police
- Police Chiefs
- Politics And Government
- Race Discrimination
- Race Relations
- Race Riots
- Racism
- Railroad Stations
- Railroad Travel
- Railroads
- Restaurants
- Riots
- Rock Hill
- Segregation
- Segregation In Transportation
- Segregationists
- Social Conditions
- Social Justice
- South Carolina
- Southern States
- Trailways
- Travel
- United States
- United States. Interstate Commerce Commission
- Violence
- Violence Against
- White Supremacy Movements