

Each spring, the members of MCFR elect a group of nine MCFR members to serve one-year Board terms. That means that the Board is responsible for hiring and supervising staff, overseeing the organization’s finances, and assisting with fundraising. Learn more about the young activists in Nashville students and SNCC pick up Freedom Rides at, “ Breach of Peace: Portraits of the 1961 Mississippi Freedom Riders,” “ Standing on My Sisters’ Shoulders,” and “ Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC.”įind additional resources below, including a lesson on SNCC with a segment on Freedom Riders. The Freedom Riders campaign cannot be explored without first understanding the history of bus desegregation in America. The Board of Directors is the leadership and oversight body of Motor City Freedom Riders. Continue reading Freedom Rides – 1961 at. When most of the demonstrators were arrested in North Carolina, the police effectively aborted the Journey of Reconciliation. White southern segregationists resisted CORE’s efforts. the Commonwealth of Virginia which outlawed segregation in interstate travel.

The songs are performed by The Montgomery Gospel Trio.

They used as their model CORE’s 1946 “ Journey of Reconciliation” where an interracial group rode interstate buses to test the enforcement of the Supreme Court’s decision in Morgan v. stand-ins and freedom rides for first class citizenship during the civil rights movement. For the 50th Anniversary Reunion of the Freedom Rides in 2011, see other web sites (as below.) For the 40th Anniversary Reunion of the Freedom Riders, this site preserves the history of, and the research prepared for, the 40th Reunion, held at Tougaloo College, Jackson Mississippi, on Veterans Day, November, 2001 (just days after the 9-11-2001 terrorist attach on the US World Trade Center. Aujourdhui, les contributions des Freedom Riders aux droits civils font lobjet dun documentaire de PBS intitulé Freedom Riders. The origins of the rides is explained at :įollowing the momentum of student-led sit-ins in Greensboro, North Carolina and Nashville, Tennessee in early 1960, an interracial group of activists, led by Congress of Racial Equality Executive Director James Farmer, decided to continue to challenge Jim Crow segregation in the South by organizing “freedom rides” through the region. Les efforts des Freedom Riders ont finalement été récompensés lorsque la Interstate Commerce Commission a décidé, le 22 septembre 1961, dinterdire la ségrégation dans les voyages entre États. They had traveled from New Orleans to Jackson, Mississippi, where they were arrested and taken to the notorious Parchman State Penitentiary. Source: “Breach of Peace” by Eric Etheridge. The Motor City Freedom Riders are a democratic organization, where the leadership overseeing our finances and staff are directly elected from among the.

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Stokely Carmichael, Gwendolyn Green, and Joan Trumpauer Mulholland. The Freedom Riders Foundation, founded 2001, promotes knowledge about the American Civil Rights Movement and particularly the 1961 Freedom Rides, as a charity approved under Internal Revenue Code Sec 501(c)(3), EIN 93-1048117.
