Write a one page essay on the Freedom Riders.  Please use link below and include some of these important details. Academic writing and no plagiarism. 

Freedom Riders

·  Organized by Congress Of Racial Equality (Core)

·  Goals were to test a Supreme court decision in 1960 Boynton v. Virginia

·  Traveled through Jim Crow south and attempted to use whites only facilities

·  1st incident – Rock Hill, SC 

o  May 12 – John Lewis and Albert Bigelow and another was viciously attacked

Birmingham – 

 Bus was met with angry mob, burned, beaten, no police protection

·  May 20 – rides resumed after negotiation after RFK negotiated with Gov Patterson for protection.

·  Riots ensue, arrests, sentenced to 30 days in jail. 

·  Appeal to Supreme Court where convictions were reversed. 

·  Fall 1961, Interstate Commerce Commission prohibited segregation in transportation & terminals

·  Freedom Riders Museum

·  210 Court St.

·  334-414-8607

·  http://ahc.alabama.gov/properties/freedomrides/freedomrides.aspx

·  Reopened at reduced capacity