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Fighting For Equality ;
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| On May 4, 1961, a group of whites and blacks arranged a highly publicized passage to validate a Supreme Court order outlawing segregation in bus terminals. Many of the riders were associated with the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) which tested intergations laws durning 1940s.
After slavry mobs beat and harrased the riders and the mob failed to stop the riders, President Kennedy decided to protest them. Determined to put an end to the hazardous Freedom Riders, Attorney Geveral Kennedy took the unusual step of asking the Interstate Commerce Commissions to issue regulation against segregated terminals. In September, the Commerce Commissions ordered bus companies to obey the earlier Supreme Court ruling. |
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