Despite being backed by recent federal rulings declaring it unconstitutional to segregate bus riders, the Freedom Riders met with obstinate resistance, even by hatred and violence — as in Birmingham and Montgomery, Ala, where white supremacists attacked bus depots themselves. Local police often refused to intervene, but still the Freedom Riders kept to their pledge of nonviolence — and their efforts transformed the civil rights movement."
(Ficklin Media Note: (Ficklin Media Note: What is really difficult to believe and accept was that about 100 years of the civil war parts of the south were still in flagrant violation and engaging in terrorist activity against now US colored citizens with no federal enforcement of even this supreme court decision- which was really only decided favorably not on moral grounds but on economic mandates- ie protecting the burgeoning intrastate transport ..the free riders were really law enforcers, attempting to demonstrate that this is supposed to be a land governed by the rule of law- the southern states , southern state police , local municipal police throughout the south were ALL by virtue of their non enforcement of the law the real law breakers- 100 years after the civil war, the south was still emboldened to refuse to follow, obey and implement federal law-)
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