Monday, June 6, 2011
My Experience
At first when I went on this journey, I was very excited, but as time went on, things started to become more dangerous and intense. Riots, beatings, violence using weapons, killings, and even burning down our bus. Even though it was hard, everyone didn't give up, still determined and enduring it. That's what I think make all of us heroes on this long journey. And that was a little part of my experience.
Photo
This is a photo of when our bus was burned down near Anniston, Alabama. I could hardly breath with those smokes going in lungs. I ran out in the grass, sit down, and calm myself down.
Wednesday, June 1, 2011
Heroes
James Farmer Jr. was one of the organizers of the Freedom Rider plan. He is a civil rights activist and the director of CORE (Congress of Racial Equality). He wanted to find a non-violent solution to end the Jim Crow Laws and the Freedom Rider plan was his solution.
Fred Shuttlesworth help the injured freedom riders when we encountered violent people who didn't like our idea of ending segregation. He said "No matter how many times they beat us up, segregation has still got to go." at a mass meeting at Bethel Baptist Church.
Examples of Jim Crow Laws
On the May of 1961, the Freedom Riders and I began our dangerous journey to fight the Jim Crow Laws by riding with both the black and the whites on the same bus together around the South.
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