Abstract
This chapter presents the oppositions that the Freedom Riders encountered while traveling in Alabama and Mississippi, in an attempt to desegregate interstate travel. In Alabama, a group of local whites led by the Ku Klux Klan attacked a bus carrying black and white Freedom Riders in an attempt to stop desegregation. Meanwhile, in Mississippi, a group of police officers arrested the Freedom Riders traveling in the state, charging them with a breach of the peace. The unfavorable responses to the Freedom Riders in Alabama and Mississippi represented two very different types of performances. The Alabama performance cast the Ku Klux Klan white members as defenders of segregation, while the Mississippi performance cast uniformed white people as defenders of law and order.
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