Here's an interesting and short article from NPR ( National Public Radio). The short article summarizes the life and shows how the fights of a civil rights activist evolved over time.
The 8 minute interview with James Farmer is very instructive on several accounts :
- strategy of filling the jails and legal implications of the strategy (to file an appeal, they needed to be freed, therefore to post bail before 40 days).
- treatment in prisons
- role of music and singing in jails : keeping the activists' morale high and breaking that of the guards.
- the education gap between the guards and the CRM activists ( the word "derogatory" means "showing no respect, demeaning").
There's also good interview with historian Raymond Arsenault who wrote a book about the freedom riders in 2006. He addresses the question of Kennedy's support of the freedom rides and more generally of his administration's committment to the movement.
- 'jail no bail' tactic of CORE (origin and impact).
- the origins of the desegregation of public transport ( 1944 case and 1947 first freedom rides)
- the Kennedy administration's policy on freedom rides
These two interviews can be listened to online, on downloaded to be listened to on the road.
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