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Essay On Freedom Riders

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In the film Freedom Riders: American Experience the freedom riders would mentally and physically prepare themselves for the hatred from the people of Mississippi and Alabama, the two most racist states in America. This group of people called the freedom riders would get onto buses and ride into hostile cities as a form of peaceful protest; while this group of mostly blacks and a few whites were peacefully protesting the racists were beating, killing and severely injuring these people to the point where they needed to be hospitalized. By doing this they needed aid from the federal Government because while doing peaceful protest in stirred up a lot of tension in these towns and created violet brawls. So these freedom riders were being put into …show more content…

Over time society changed its ways and started transforming into a less hateful generation of people in America. Today most people aren’t racist towards other races because Americans are a multicultural race, and because of this overtime everyone will learn to accept all races no matter where they are from or what language they speak. The civil rights movement was perhaps a revolutionary social movement because it enabled an entire race of people to segregate certain aspects of everyday life. It was a revolutionary social movement because it wasn’t just changing one thing; it was changing the way of life from the average black person. Also this sparked change in the eyes of many whites and blacks that said everyone is enough with inequality in the United States of America. The Government and law enforcement played a tremendous role in the experience of the freedom riders. The law enforcement wasn’t very helpful and allowed people to beat the freedom riders for a couple of minutes and have no consequences; whereas the Federal Government was protecting the freedom riders at the expense of the tax payers. The Federal government allied in more than one way; by US Marshals, National Guard, and the United States

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