Talk:Freedom rides
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Yes, this should be combined. Note that Freedom Riders entry has many errors, attributes the Freedom Rides to CORE (incorrect), etc. See http://www.freedomridersfoundation.org/brief.history.html for a better history. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 66.30.225.99 (talk • contribs) 13:58, 25 January 2006 UTC.
No it shouldn't be combined, and it can correctly be contributed to both SNCC and CORE, which founded it. -----J.E
I agree with both of you....
It definitely should be combined, and CORE did create the freedom riders! Colea
It should be combined; the two are essentially synonyms. No knowledge of the history but that should be easy to come by. Calmofthestorm
yes should be combined, and the main founder of freedom rides was CORE
I'm a Freedom Rider and I think it should be combined. SNCC sponsored several Freedom Rides when a ICC ruling finally abolished segregation in interstate transportation facilities. (A lot of people confuse the Nashville Student Movement with SNCC, which wasn't true at the time.) Virtually all of the 436 persons who went on Freedom Rides during the summer of 1961 were sponsored by CORE. It's worth noting that NAACP Legal Defense Fund chief Thurgood Marhall--who opposed the Freedom Rides at first because he was afraid they would prompt a backlash threatening civil rights achievements--later gave Jim Farmer several hundred thousand dollars in "excess" funds to use for bail in Mississippi. Dr. King refused to join the first Freedom Rides and had very little to do with any of them. Read Ray Arsenault's recent book titled "Freedom Rides: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice" (Oxford University Press 1961) for the definitive work on this subject.
Combine them, just not under Freedom Riders, under Freedom Rides, no one searches for participants they search for the events.A mcmurray 23:13, 7 October 2006 (UTC)
Yes, combine them. As the first discussion item points out, the Freedom Riders entry has many errors, foremost that it fails to mention the Journey of Reconciliation (if anything, that should be a separate entry) and waxes long but irrelevantly on the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Also, with all due respect that Professor Arsenault's book is the most complete on the subject, it unfortunately has errors. Notably and ironically, that includes missed dates, similar to the "1961" publishing date cited by the writer above (the book came out earlier this year). As for the writer of that discussion item, I apologize for even mentioning your minor error; we all owe much to you and certainly should defer to your judgment as a Freedom Rider that one entry would suffice.
