The stories of individuals who helped the Civil Rights Activists like Ruby bridges, Rosa Parks or even groups of people named Freedom Riders suggest that the citizens worked hard into shaping a democracy for all people. Believing in a cause and acting by the cause. The movements like Freedom Riders or stands up like Rosa Park show the courage they had into showing that they wanted a change in the country. To be finally free.
Their movements' impacts can be seen greatly by the changes they caused, like the desegregation of public facilities which was ordered by the Supreme Court because of the Freedom Riders who showed that the system had to change. Schools had to change. Even with the integration of new laws to assist Black Americans, Jim Crow laws were used and were unconstitutional, Civil Rights Activists filed many cases against it to ban it. They just needed to show that it was wrong and get the attention they needed to do it. The Freedom Riders campaign had massive effects on the fight against the segregation that was happening in the United States. It spread quickly through many places, showing and making people see the issue of segregation and racial discrimination in the South.
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They were hostile, creating angry mobs who would attack them if they saw them. Many white people found ways to overcome the law and make the change of desegregation harder to achieve for Black Americans. Groups like Ku Klux Klan were created for the sole purpose of creating harm to Black Americans, laws were also created. Jim Crow Laws were an example of it, looking to segregate many public uses facilities for Black and White Americans, still showing the idea of inequality thinking. The Brown v. The Board of Education of Topeka declared that racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional and brought to an end the idea of “separate but