The Freedom Riders were a group of Civil Right's activists. They rode through Georgia, Virginia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi, and ending in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Confederate States Ship Alabama .
February 22, 1861 in Montgomery , Alabama
There were many states that had slaves. Some of the states were Kansas, Tennessee, Alabama, North and South Carolina, and Georgia.
There are approximately 17 states that grow cotton in the United States. A few of those states are Tennessee, Texas, and Alabama.
South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama
They called themselves the "Freedom Riders" they rode through 2 states protesting
Freedom Riders were Civil Rights activists, mostly young, white and black, and from the northern states, who took "Freedom Rides" on buses into the southern states in order to test the Supreme Court case of Boyton v. Virginia, which proclaimed that racial segregation in restaurants and waiting rooms in bus and train stations, was unconstitutional. The first Freedom Ride left Washington D.C. in May 1961. Later Freedom Riders went into the most segregated areas of the South in attempts to get Blacks living there to register to vote. Wikipedia has an article on Freedom Riders.
The Freedom Riders were a civil rights group. Their goal was to make southern states recognize the anti-segregation laws that were in place. Freedom Riders were groups of white and African American civil rights activists who participated in Freedom Rides, bus trips through the American South in 1961 to protest segregated bus terminals Freedom Riders were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated Southern United States in 1961 and subsequent years to challenge the non-enforcement of the United States Supreme Court decisions Morgan v. Virginia (1946) and Boynton v. Virginia (1960), which ruled that segregated public buses were unconstitutional. The Southern states had ignored the rulings and the federal government did nothing to enforce them. The first Freedom Ride left Washington, D.C. on May 4, 1961, and was scheduled to arrive in New Orleans on May 17.
Sit ins and Freedom Rides were advocated mostly in the South. Georgia and Tennessee are two states that were notoriously known for their sit ins and Freedom Rides.
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The Mississippi River does not flow through Alabama. It is a border between Alabama and the states of Tennessee and Mississippi.
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The Appalachian Mountains range runs from the St. Lawrence Gulf in Canada to the states of Alabama. It extends through much of the eastern United States.
The Tennessee River flows through Tennessee and Alabama.
Georgia and Alabama
Slaves could gain freedom through various means such as purchasing their freedom, being granted freedom by their owners, escaping and seeking refuge in free states or countries, or being emancipated through legal means like abolition laws and decrees. Others gained freedom through military service or through networks like the Underground Railroad.
The six states the Watsons traveled through on their way to Birmingham were Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Alabama.