Freedom Riders Movie Essay

Freedom Riders
The film Freedom Riders was released in the year of 2010, but it originally shows what happened in the six month period from May until November of 1961. It’s a documentary that shows the actions of an important group of civil rights activists who played a great role in the nonviolent civil rights movement. It was mainly in the period of Jim Crow Laws when they had racial segregation in all of the public facilities in the southern states. They were about 400 black and white Americans in which their goal was to challenge and change racial segregation. They were faced with race hatred, mob violence, brutally beaten up, and imprisoned for breaking the law. The African Americans were not able to go into the white people’s facilities.

The documentary viewed people that were there and who also had family members at the time being. The film showed scenes that were from that time and had flashbacks of the people talking about the actual scene and their emotions and thought and ideas of what happened. This made it even livelier to the view; it can’t be more accurate than this to bring people who were there to be in the documentary was a great idea. One of the incidents that I thought was harsh was when Sangernetta Gilbert Bush’s dad, an African American, went around the café just to get a cup of coffee, but the server, a white woman said we can’t serve Negros and pushed him out the door. The groups of people on the bus, both black and white, were very kind and caring for one another. When the bus went on fire because of the mob violence happening outside of it happened, Jane Forsyth Mckinney, a white woman that was on the bus in risk of dying, brought water for others to drink before she did. This was another scene that really caught my attention the need of others went before hers even though she was one of the people being targeted just how they were. All of the scenes shown in the film, with the characters there describing what happened proved that what was shown was accurate, it really portrayed how hard it was to live at the time of