Roy Wood, Jr.: Well, let me start just on the behalf of all of Black America, brother Person, and just tell you, thank you. I'll let the two of them take it from here. Raised in Birmingham, he has written that Alabama represents to him painful history, new hope and home. is a comedian best known for his work on The Daily Show. Person has just published a memoir of his experiences and a call to action for change: Buses are a Comin'. Freedom Riders sat down on these buses in order to stand up for the truest of our nation's ideals. Brutal violence in Alabama showed that when it came to integration, the nation was failing. Freedom Riders rode buses across the South to test Supreme Court rulings declaring segregation unconstitutional in restrooms, bus depots, and waiting areas. Today, we are honored to welcome Charles Person and Roy Wood, Jr.Ĭharles Person was a Freedom Rider. My name is Kat, and I'm a Park Ranger at Freedom Riders National Monument and Birmingham Civil Rights National Monument. Join Park Rangers, researchers, authors and activists as we discuss what liberty and justice for all means on our public land. To climb mountains both physical and figurative. National Parks inspire us to do better, be better. They are spaces of remembrance, founded to preserve the stories of who we are and how we came to be. King's childhood home, Japanese internment camps, and a school that became a battleground for racial integration? Are you picturing waterfalls and mountains? Or do you think of Dr. " 'Well, I can flip burgers or I can go to Parchman.Welcome to We Will Rise: National Parks and Civil Rights.Ĭlose your eyes and imagine a National Park. "I think I remember one time listening and they said, 'What are you going to do this summer?' " Patton says.
Patton, who served some of his time at Mississippi's Parchman State Prison Farm, says it was a technique they learned from Gandhi. "It makes it hard on the system to have to feed and take care of a lot of students that they really didn't expect to do that with." "The fine might be a $50 fine and the sentence might be 31 days, but we would choose the 31 days," he explains. Because it was one of the later Freedom Rides, Patton tells Neal Conan, he had a better idea of what he was getting into.īy the time he boarded the bus, Patton says, "They had had the mob attacks in Anniston, Birmingham and Montgomery."īut he still went to Nashville and from there to Jackson, where he was ultimately put in jail.Īccording to Patton, Freedom Riders opted for jail time over fines. Ernest "Ripp" Patton took part in the May 24, 1961, Greyhound Freedom Ride from Nashville, Tenn.
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