Essays on Freedom Riders

“Freedom Riders” is an insightful and impressive film regarding the non-violent movement for civil rights in the early 1960’s. The plan was the brainchild of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE). The idea was that several supporters of the civil rights movement-black, white, male, and female-would board commercial buses and travel from Washington, D.C. to New Orleans, Louisiana in May of 1961. There are several parts of the film that speak to the viewer. The first, and most notable, is that nearly a century following the Civil War, human beings, regardless of race or gender, could still be ...

The Freedom riders is a civil rights associated film produced in the Southern United States between May and December 1961. The film has a great focus on racial segregation theme that existed back then in America in terms of transport and accommodation of people. The film depicts the failure in the ruling elements in the year 1946 for case of Morgan and Virginia (Nelson 5). It also covers the reconciliation journey which followed in 1947 and the boycotts which erupted later in 1955 in the south. If I was the parent, I would look the better good of the ...

The tale of America’s tumultuous racial history is fraught with conflict, fear and violence, as people of color throughout America’s history have had to fight tooth and nail for what freedoms and rights they currently enjoy. To that end, the Freedom Riders of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s were some of the bravest, most courageous activists within this movement, riding interstate buses to challenge the strict segregation laws that had been put in place throughout the Southern United States. In 2011, a group of brave Americans sought to recapture that activist spirit by reenacting their ...