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These riders rode many buses searching for that violent reaction in every city and town they stopped in. Manny bus companies refused to carry any CORE freedom riders due to many of the reactions.
On May 4, 1961- Mothers Day--one bus pulled into the bus station in Birmingham, James Peck, a freedom rider, saw a hostile mob waiting for them, some holding iron bars. Peck and his friend were brutally beat in the white waiting room after getting off the bus. This was only Bus One and Bus Two would continue the journey through the south and would end up shocking the Kennedy Administration into action.
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This form of segregation intensified after many African Americans moved North during and after WWII. Although it was illegal to segregate public buildings many private owned companies refused to obey the law in fear that they would lose white customers and they felt that it was morally wrong to allow black entry.
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corea american valuesThe Freedom Riders showed nationalism by trying to show the government that things were still bad on the buses and believed that the country would be better if the government saw that things were not changing.
Progress was shown by Civil Rights activists and their goal to try and the Montgomery Bus Boycott that strained the economy. Sit ins were peaceful protests and showed progress by bringing whites and blacks closer. Equality was shown by Brown vs Board of Education and schools were no longer segregated and the nation was moving forward towards equal education. |
changes from previous era The change from the previous era is that African Americans now have the right to vote and they are not as segregated. A black man can sit where ever he wants on a bus and there are no segregated schools so a white child is getting the same education as a black child. Presidents were also for helping the minorities such as Blacks.
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