The Freedom Riders A Powerful And Inspiring Documentary...

The â€Å"Freedom Riders† was a powerful and inspiring documentary on the six months of 1961 that altered America’s history. More than four hundred African Americans and whites put their lives in danger, bearing mob beatings and incarceration, as they travelled through the Deep South in numerous buses from May until November of 1961. As the freedom riders knowingly violated Jim Crow laws, they were confronted with cruel racism and violence which painfully pushed against their mindset of nonviolent activism. Their strong, passive attitude informed me that the correct method of communicating our opinions is always without violence. This enables our voice to be heard clearly without it being overshadowed by the disturbances of violence. The destruction and the uproar only cause the opposite party to be deaf to our beliefs. There were two Supreme Court decisions that desegregated all interstate travel facilities. But African Americans still faced much bitterness and racism when they travelled through the south. It disheartened me to see the injustice that colored people had to face when the law clearly called for their equality. They were suppressed on the basis of continuing culture for the sake of the few southern, conservative white Americans. The Kennedy administration was too distracted by the Cold War and the possibilities of international nuclear threat to discuss the civil rights issues that arose within their borders. It appeared as if the civil rights leaders had to take