American Experience; Freedom Riders; Interview with Sangernetta Gilbert Bush, 2 of 2

these these these these and so it was an adventure actually be using the word and all will watson all molto for us at that point you had not except when you have no other choice but for it to be normal and that is where we were we had no other choice but to take that have to go to the va that even happened to me every day going downtown we know there was just certain places week ago and i was his normal so was this something the scenes these really say about that

but that's normal it is now it is say it now but at the time it was not because if you don't know about another way of life helping you what helping you arm because i think that you have it and you don't even know anything about we did this was to everyday life some people had cards some people did some people travel we were fortunate to have a cooperative have to wrap a bus to mike polk when we did you know oh i'm going to go back and ask you you know that that data that saturday when the freedom riders get

here and i know there were other black people we're with you in a doorway on outside of this treatment would come to watch it what was the mood in the black community that day the mood was ah i really think they were trying to road was eggplant anticipate what was going to happen next there was no shouting no matching no groaning it was just to silence waiting to see what was going to happen because of that and has been learning but in that thinking that it was gone to be as

dramatic as it was when they got out the bus without a disorderly of protests and it turned the other way and there was a move people would just think they were curious that was a curious they were curious as of what was coming but they they were bad jour les because they were arriving when when the bus pulled up their bad you're you know a valid made it but then once they made it and the door's open that's when it exploded that his win the councilman began to pull the students off the bus of course she as they would play that they've made crista was more visit

the door there was a way at that blooms of the bus open and there they are maine and went to the door are and they get that openness that it going into colder than the us still result of the us some distance would getting up the bus and others just with a sad poem them off and stagger dating and it's like it was open you start to see the beat was talking about where this is it really get what i was standing in the doorway with other fellow black neighbors in awe of nine camry and waiting in anticipation

of the students that had grown to the problem of the of the burning of a bus in anniston and once that bus pulled up and though white citizens council members side had to pull them off the bus even go into the bus to get on the bus to pull them off the bus i could see shadows from where i was standing is still how they will pull in those delays they brought the only one that i sell them beat was the one that was brought in front of the bus to the re council members bp is young man to help his mates turned him upset down the third one hit him in his growing with the baseball player the police were they we felt they were their full potential blow out to get that we hope they were available protection but they pulled back

that no protection whatsoever and the steelers were beaten and that the other members of the community cry they moan and they groan and they prayed but the safety of those students and but there was nothing that anyone could do not a thing because we did not know what to do number one and you would have been heard just as there is a freedom riders were her and him back a second beer kentucky's pregnant but it was a sad day it was it bused in the blood a day but it was the assailant in a nut day before they're and i forget to mention that the day that a church that was justin son was lookin at his window from his

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