Black & White Students Come Together

Freedom Rides of 1961

This is the full length film as scene on PBS in 2011.  This film depicts what was the Freedom Rides of 1961.  The premise of the Freedom Rides was to bring black and white students on busses starting in the north and going further and further down south.  The movement was organized by CORE - Congress of Racial Equality. 

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Freedom Riders

March on Washington of 1963

The March on Washington occurred in the summer in Washington DC on August 28th, 1963.  It is best known for the speech in which Martin Luther King Jr. gave.  His speech he would give on this day would be known in the future as the "I Have a Dream" speech.   On this day people of all ages, including students, of both black and white came together.   

Freedom Summer of 1964

The Freedom Summer of 1964 in Mississippi was one of the occurrences were you saw a coming together of black and white students for the rights of blacks.  The premise of the Freedom Summer was to help Mississippi black citizens to be able to vote with the pre Voting Rights Act of 1965 rules in place.  Through out the summer a large number of white students from the North came down to help.  There was one particular incident that brought a lot of attention to the Freedom Summer in which two white men, and one black men, was killed by the KKK.  The men were Andrew Goodman, Michael Shwerner, and James Chaney.  

Free Speech Movement of 1964-1965

The Free Speech Movement began in 1964 at Berkeley University.  This is a clip from the movie, Berkeley in the Sixities, which details the student fight at Berekely on several issues, including Civil Rights.  The Free Speech Movement began when a student got in trouble and arrested for passing out information on the Civil Rights Movement, just because he did not produce identification.  It sparked a sit in around the car in which he was arrested on October 1st and then a large sit in on December 2nd 1965 in Sproul Hall.  After the second sit in provisions were made to campus rules which would allow for political information to be passed around on the campus - including materials on the Civil Rights.  

SDS - Students of a Democratic Society 

SDS - Students of a Democratic Society was an organization made up of primarily white students.  It was formed at a time when the civil rights was in full swing and the Vietnam War was at hand.  They were the youth fighting for what they believed was to be rights.  This clip is from the movie, Rebels with a Cause.