Word: core
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Several hours later, the second contingent of Freedom Riders, including CORE National Director James Farmer, planted themselves in the waiting room. "You all have to move," said a police captain. No one stirred. "You all going to move?" asked the captain. "No," came the reply. "You all are under arrest," said the captain...
...order, the Freedom Riders would probably have passed through Alabama with little incident-just as they had passed through Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia. As the Freedom Riders themselves admit, segregation would have returned to Alabama before their bus was out of sight. Says a CORE lawyer: "A trip like this is like hacking your way through the jungle with a machete. After you've gone, the jungle grows right back...
Instead, Patterson helped set off integrationist movements that last week were spreading throughout the South. In Florida, the N.A.A.C.P. ordered a segregation test of all rail and bus facilities. In New York, CORE headquarters announced that it was sending field secretaries to New Orleans, Jackson and Montgomery. In Nashville, more students were ready to go to Jackson, where the 27 arrested Freedom Riders were fined $200 each and given suspended sentences of 60 days. At week's end, 22 of the 27 were still in jail because they refused to ante up any money...
James Leonard Farmer, 41, helped found the Congress of Racial Equality in Chicago 19 years ago; four months ago he was elected CORE's national director. Son of a college professor and grandson of a slave, hefty (6 ft., 210 Ibs.) James Farmer studied medicine at Texas' Wiley College just long enough to realize that he could not stand the sight of blood, decided to become a minister, took his divinity degree at Howard University, but was never ordained. Instead, he went to work for such "social-action causes" as Fellowship of Reconciliation and the N.A.A.C.P. He studied...
Alan Gartner, chairman of Boston CORE, asserted that "the Trailways bus company here at Boston does not have a clean record, either. There are no colored employees in New England Trailways above the rank of porter or janitor." He also mentioned instances of discrimination in housing...