I believe that the Freedom Riders helped get rid of segregation. In this paper I will show how they managed to do this without using violence. In the 1950's and 1960's the southern part of America was segregated. Blacks and whites had their own bathrooms, their own designated seats on busses and in diners. The Civil Rights movement was born to help get rid of segregation and racial inequality. Racism is still a part of American society, even though most people would try to deny it. It is not, however, what it once was. In earlier days, black and white people even had segregated swimming pools. In most cases, designated areas for black people were not maintained as well as areas for white people. Martin Luther King Jr. and many other civil rights activists, like the Freedom Riders, made gigantic strides in helping rid America of segregation in the south. I believe Freedom Riders helped get rid of segregation by using racial unity, non-violence. They faced violence for their beliefs, but still persevered to get rid of segregation. Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) was committed to practicing non-violence in their protests. CORE was founded in 1942, an interracial group of students in Chicago (History of CORE). It's co-leaders were a white student George Houser, and a black student James L. Farmer Jr. (History of CORE). These students were in the forefront of the Civil Rights Movement. They felt racism and racial inequality was wrong, and found non-violent ways to protest these injustices. They started with sit-ins at diners, bus boycotts, and the inception of the Freedom Rides. Non-Violence is likely one of the easiest, yet hardest techniques a group may apply in protesting. Even though you may be a non-violent protestor, the groups you are protesting against may be violent. Dealing with that potential violence while maintaining a non-violent stance is difficult. Freedom Riders used many non-violent techniques, such as sit-in