Freedom+Riders-rindi

**__Freedom Riders__**
====Freedom Rides were integrated bus rides that were supposed to be peaceful. Instead, they became very, very violent. When freedom riders exited the buses, they were greeted with violent mobs that nearly beat them to death. In Birmingham, Alabama an FBI informant reported that Public Safety Commissioner Eugene "Bull" Connor gave KKK members fifteen minutes to attack an incoming group of freedom riders before having police "protect" them. The riders were severely beaten "until it looked like a bulldog had got a hold of them." James Peck, a white activist, was beaten so hard he required fifty stitches to his head.====