Mmunity Segregation News Today

Gray hound and trail ways buses to challenge segregation as freedom riders. >> the freedom ride started with two buses, 13 people going from washington d.c. to new orleans. >> the concept of the freedom ride was to show that the segregation laws were not being enforced in the south. >> even though the law the man says that a passenger can ride inner state and participate in lunchrooms and waiting rooms and bathrooms, the law says this, everyone cannot, particularly the negro. they are buying tic...

In the name of the greatest people that have ever walked this earth, i draw the line in the dust and toss the gauntlet and i say segregation now, segregation tomorrow and segregation forever. >> george wallace became a figure for white southerners and when he promised segregation forever to the resistant white south. >> im sorry mr. wallace, god has spoken to me. that he wants freedom for his people. it may even mean physical death but if it means that i will die standing up for the freedom of m...

We pull on into jackson. the wagon was waiting for us. >> we didnt know it at the time but the kennedys had agreed that the freedom riders could be imprisoned. >> the kennedy administration makes a deal where by the miss mispoli -- mississippi police units agree every freedom rider in jackson will be arrested. >> officials in mississippi think they found a legal way to circumvent desegregation. their method calling defiance of segregation a threat to the

22.5 years as public safety commissioner. i dont believe i owe the taxpayers of birmingham anything. they will owe me two and a half years back pay. >> dont shop for anything on capitol street. these are stores that helped to support the white citizens counsel. >> he is operating in and around jackson, mississippi, the heart of resistance to desegregation. the nbc network affiliate was notorious for features segregation speeches and become such a problem that medger evers demanded equal time. >>...

General nicholas kesenbach all smiles as the two negro students are to enter the building. >> each time the issue came up, the president and the attorney general did everything they could to not have to get involved. and it was after the encounter with wallace that civil rights became top priority. >> this is not a sectional issue. difficulties over segregation and discrimination exist in every city, in every state of the union. but love alone cannot make men see right. we are confronted primari...

That kings movement wasnt working. he had lost a lot of support from whites and blacks, martin luther king is a good man. he is my brother. he is still like me. were all catching hell. hes got his approaches of freedom. he is doing his best. and he is changing now too. he sees now that it seems to be impossible to do what he want to do. >> king was rapidly being eclipsed by a younger and much more militant faction of the black power movement. >> we are not going to let these white people come in...