Thursday, June 2, 2011
Experience
I have had a tough journey. Started at being threatened, to being beaten, to being thrown in jail. One day, me and college students both black and white decided to take a trip down south together on the Greyhound bus. We wanted to test segregation all throughout the south. When people heard about students being on the bus , we knew we were going to be going threw hell. A group of white men surrounded our bus bunching and pushing the bus ordering everyone to get off or we cant go anywhere. It was so terrible. They caught our bus on fire , and the smoke was so bad that we could barely breath. Some died but i managed to survive through it all. Im glad i did it because it gave me an oppurtunity to give others there freedom , i dont regret a thing.
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
James Zwerg had been attacked and was put in the hospital. He declared that violence wouldnt stop him or any of his friends. Zwerg was one of the movements first heroes. Catherine Burks-Brooks was also attacked along the journey. She came back 50 years later to Alabama and had a Museum dedicated at the old bus station were they were confronted. She was also named a hero.
A group of us on the bus decided we were going to do things a little bit different. There were six blacks and six whites and we decided that we were going to sit together on the bus, eat together in the resturants. The white people are going to use the "coloreds only" restrooms and the blacks are going to use the "whites only" restrooms. We had to put up with a lot of beatens but we still did it.
Freedom Riders
We traveled by the Greyhound buses. The first ride was April 22nd from East St. Louis,Ill to sickeston,MO. On May 4th a bus traveling from Washington D.C to New Orleans was attacked and burned by Amiston, Alabama.
Friday, November 5, 2010
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