Freedom Riders arrested in Jackson, MI, 1961. The fight was about so much more than where they could sit on buses. It was about where they could work, what positions they could compete for, what neighborhoods they could live in, how much schooling they could get and who they could love. They rightly understood that every facet of American life was controlled by segregation.
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“But I am very worried, about the state of the civilization which produced that photograph of the white cop, standing on that Negro woman’s neck in Birmingham.” Lorraine Hansberry, to Attorney General Robert Kennedy, 1963