Freedom Riders Research Paper

Why the Freedom Riders were important to the Civil Rights Movement because they brought national attention to themselves. The police’s and citizen’s actions towards them brought the attention of the Kennedy administration, in which Kennedy decided to send 400 federal marshals to protect the Freedom Riders. The Kennedy administration also pushed the Interstate Commerce Commission to order desegregation of the interstate level. The Freedom Rides were organized by CORE and SNCC, and after the protests of both the riders and whites, the Interstate Commerce Commission took the “whites only” signs down. The Freedom Riders had their victory, so from the 1960’s to now anyone is allowed to sit anywhere without getting told to move. An important court case for this was Morgan v. Virginia …show more content…
Supreme Court in the case Alexander v. Sandoval, ended the ability of individuals to bring suit to enforce the Title VI regulations. Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits any discrimination on the basis of race, color or national origin by recipients of the federal financial assistance. In a court settlement in 1996, the Los Angeles Metropolitan Transportation Authority (LAMTA) and the Los Angeles Bus Riders Union, a project of the Labor/Community Strategy Center, had negotiated a consent decree. During the case, the Labor/Community Strategy Center and Los Angeles Bus Riders Union v. Los Angeles Metropolitan Transportation Authority, the court found that LAMTA had been providing inferior services to Los Angeles’s largely minority and low-income bus riders. So more white people were benefited and were able to use the bus systems, rather than many of the black people in that region. This caused an economic downturn considering that the vast majority of the riders were people of color, and it became a bigger disadvantage for them. In Washington DC, the Washington Metropolitan Area Transportation Authority had increased fares by 20% for buses, and 15% for

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