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During the civil rights movement, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee developed a system of shared rides for activists in the South called the Sojourner Motor Fleet. Morning Edition's Leah Fleming interviews members Freddie Greene Biddle and Judy Richardson to talk about how the fleet was organized right out of SNCC's Atlanta headquarters.
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc./Patrick O'Neill Riley This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article, which was published April 9, 2021. In a cramped cell in a South Carolina prison camp, 22-year-old African American activist Thomas Gaither wrote, “I am presently in deep contemplation as to just what our nation and our particular region of the nation prizes most.” It was Thursday, Feb. 23, 1961, and Gaither was serving a 30-day term of hard labor on a road gang for what police called “trespassing,” when he and students fr...
May 4 marked the 60th anniversary of the start of the Freedom Rides. Here are five things to know about the movement that helped change the course of the nation
Freedom Riders: 5 things to know on 60th anniversary Updated 7:02 AM; Facebook Share By Shelia Poole The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (TNS) and Tribune Media Services May 4 marks the 60th anniversary of the start of the Freedom Rides. Here are five things to know about the movement that helped change the course of the nation and the fight for equality. What are the Freedom Rides? In May 1961, the Congress of Racial Equality launched the Freedom Rides as a way challenge segregation on interstate buses and bus facilities like waiting rooms and dining counters. Groups of...
Skip to main content 'Our ultimate choice is desegregation or disintegration' - recovering the lost words of a jailed civil rights strategist Bobby J. Donaldson, University of South Carolina April 9, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail Bobby J. Donaldson, University of South Carolina and Christopher Frear, University of South Carolina (THE CONVERSATION) In a cramped cell in a South Carolina prison camp, 22-year-old African American activist Thomas Gaither wrote, “I am presently in deep contemplation as to just what our nation and our particular region of the nation prizes most.” It was Thursday, F...