Id traffic freedom rider a pbs theme1/2/2024 ![]() The Freedom Riders who came together to dismantle this racist practice of segregated travel faced savage beatings, and imprisonment. Under the Congress For Racial Equality (headed by James Farmer), the Freedom Riders were prepared to face the insults and attacks they would surely face because they were challenging a way of life that many racist would fight to the death to maintain. The federal government had struck down segregated travel on buses, but for many decades the South gave the federal government the finger and continued its segregation policies on buses and all other conveyances of public travel. The CRM sought to have President John Kennedy give federal protection to Black citizens on buses–buses that were licenced under the federal government’s Interstate Commerce Commission that federally regulated buses that traveled America’s highways. ![]() The humiliation of separate facilities both on buses and at bus stops, made for unendurable travel for Black Americans when they got on a bus, be it the Greyhound bus line, Trailways bus line or any other. These Freedom Riders were Black, White, young, old, men, women, Jew, Gentile, Northern, and Southern. In 1961, over 400 Americans put their lives on the line to bring to an end the segregation of interstate travel for Black passengers on buses. Click on the link here to view this wonderful program of a much forgotten part of America’s history. ![]() If you missed the outstanding PBS presentation of “ Freedom Riders” which aired last night, Monday, May 16, here is your chance to view it. ![]()
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