Director Stanley Nelson tells the Conversation their story of bravery.in May 1961, a racially mixed group of men and women traveled by bus together from Washington, D.C., to New Orleans to test compliance with Supreme Court rulings that had outlawed segregated waiting rooms, lunch counters and restroom facilities for interstate passengers. By November 1961, more than 400 of these Freedom Riders had risked their lives, endured savage beatings and imprisonment.
Although the Supreme Court decision in the case of Boynton v. Virginia effectively outlawed segragation for interstate bus passengers, the ruling was not enforced south of the Mason-Dixon Line. It took the action of the Freedom Riders to force the the Interstate Commerce Commission to finally outlaw discriminatory seating practices and enforce the removal of"whites only" signs from interstate bus terminals on Nov. 1, 1961.
The first bus carrying the Freedom Riders was firebombed and the Riders beaten so savagely that none of them could finish the journey. Diane Nash, a college student in Nashville, Tenn., was 22 when she saw the headlines splashed on front-pages across the country. That very same day, she and other students got on a bus to Birmingham, Ala., determined to complete the journey.
Oh, the same ones that the Democrats opposed?
Are 'Black Communities' racial segregation? What about 'Chinatown', is that racial segregation? You'll notice most if not all peoples from china, who emigrate to America immediately segregate themselves in 'Chinatown'.
And the Democrats opposed them
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