Page 1- The Freedom Riders were a group of 7 African American people and 6 whites that protested against racial segregation. Most of the riders were college students and members of the CORE which stands for Congress of racial Equality. The CORE was founded in the early 1960s which focused on political idea of black national and separatism. Another great organization is the SNCC which stands for Student of Nonviolence Coordinating Committee. The SNCC was founded in April 1960 by young kids that were involved in the sit-ins that were beaten.
Page-2 On May 4 1961 the freedom rides started in Washington DC and they also went through Mississippi, Georgia, Alabama, New Orleans and Louisiana and through time they improved their numbers by having …show more content…
Like the bus boycott and how in Anniston Alabama. Over 350 of the riders were sent to jail because to the white people they were breaking the law. The Boynton vs Virginia case was a great way to show civil disobedience just because they segregated them like using white only restaurants and white only water fountains. Which were also known as the Jim Crow Laws which pretty much says that a African Americans can't drink at the same water fountains or eat at the same tables.
Page-5 The Freedom riders showed civil disobedience to the government because the south was segregated and Black people could not used the same stuff as what's such as the following bathrooms, schools and water fountains. On the busses at least one white person and one African American sat next to each other and one black sat in the front.

Page-6 This is a great way to show disobedience because blacks should not be segregated and even whites. By whites and blacks riding the same bus they they experienced a lot of violence like cops blowing them off with water hoses or being beaten to a point where there face is …show more content…
Page-8 I think that this was a big change because whites became to like blacks and blacks at the end got what they wanted

Quotes
"You didn't know what you were going to encounter. You had night riders. You had hoodlums . . . You could be antagonized at any point in your journey.” ~ Charles Person, Freedom Rider
"Segregation was unfair. It was wrong, morally, religiously. As a Southerner – a white Southerner – I felt that we should do what we could to make the South better and to rid ourselves of this evil.” ~ Joan Mulholland, Activist
"When I did see the young people, first the sit-ins and the courage that they had to have, and then a couple years later on the bus in Anniston, and Jim Peck being so brutally beaten, I thought I just had to do something, and simply volunteered and proceeded.” ~ Albert Gordon, Freedom Rider, Teacher, penis immigrant whose family had been killed by the Nazis during World War II

Works Cited
History.com Staff. "Freedom Rides." History.com. A&E Television Networks, 2010. Web. 08 May 2017.

"Freedom Riders." PBS. Public Broadcasting Service, n.d. Web. 08 May 2017.

Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). N.p., n.d. Web. 10 May