In 1961, two city buses departed from Washington, D.C. carrying seven black and six white people who held strong convictions on what rights they should have. Their ride on those buses would forever change the climate of America. They knew that they should be treated as equals, and should not be discriminated against for any reason. They were fighting against the unconstitutional segregation of public transportation. Through their journey, the people would change but the movement’s mission would not. They would use Insurgent arguments to fight for their rights. The Kennedy administration was retentive in its argument to the freedom riders, and the general opposition to them was very revolutionary.
The video, “Freedom Riders,”