CSPAN3 Freedom Riders April 10, 2016
Brown versus board of education, and the apex of the movement being the assassination of dr. King in 1968, the freedom ride is right in the middle of that history. It was the Halfway Point for those events. What happened here on the streets of montgomery really became a turning point for the movement. The freedom ride was a Civil Rights Campaign to challenge the segregated laws in interstate travel across the south. In 1961dom rides began with two groups of integrated people, blacks and whites, leaving on Greyhound Buses and trailways buses traveling through the deep south to test whether the ...