The latter part of the Civil Rights Movement was characterized by action and change as it was no longer centralized in the South or fought only by black individuals. Rather, Northerners were active in achieving black equality, and the white community campaigned for integration. Although many lost their lives in this struggle, their courage did not go unrewarded, and soon African Americans were able to vote, work, study, and simply dine alongside whites. Despite great efforts during the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott in which the black community and its supporters refused to use public transportation, transportation segregation still persisted in some Southern states. As a result, the civil rights group, the Congress on Racial Inequality (CORE), began organizing what they called “freedom rushes.” In 1961, the group began sending student volunteers on bus trips to test the implementation of new laws prohibiting segregation in interstate travel facilities (Peck, 161). Most notable was a trip they took from Washington, D.C., making stops in Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi. Upon arrival the group encountered violence and brutality from the Ku Klux Klan and others, but that did not stop them from making their voices heard. In September 1961, the Attorney General petitioned the Interstate Commerce Commission to draft a policy making racial segregation in bus terminals illegal, and in November this was implemented. The Freedom Riders gave national publicity to the discrimination that black Americans were forced to endure and, in doing so, helped bring about change not only in bus terminals but in the nation as a whole. One of the revolutionary events… ... middle of paper...... Movement in America. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 1986. Flynt, Wayne. “In memory of four little girls” November 2, 2004 http://www.useekufind.com/peace/summary.htm Meier, August and Elliot Ridwick. CORE: A study of the civil rights movement. Urbana, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, 1975. Peck, James. Freedom ride. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1962.Williams, Juan. Eye on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965. New York: Viking Penguin Inc., 1987. “Africana: Gateway to the Black World.” 2000. November 1, 2004 http://www.africana.com/blackboard/bb_his_000156.htm“Black Civil Rights in the United States (1954-1970). 2 November 2004 http://www.heretaunga.school.nz/dept/history/5BLACK.htm#Birmingham“We Shall Overcome: Historic Places of the Civil Rights Movement” 2002. 2 November 2004 http://www.cr . nps.gov/nr/travel/civilrights/al11.htm