The very next year Jim Zwerg found himself as an exchange student at Nashville's Fisk University.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/peoplescentury/episodes/skindeep/zwergtranscript.html
Zwerg, in his DN interview this morning, reveals that he had inadvertently started a local push in Nashville to desegregate the city's cinemas when he had naively asked his black fellow students at Fisk to go to the movies with him. For that local movement to desegregate the cinemas of Nashville, many Nashville students were subsequently trained in Non-Violence techniques for the first time by CORE, the Congress of Racial Equality.
After CORE leaders and trainers left Nashville again, these activist students quickly realized that they could and would not simply stop. They knew that they had been empowered, and eventually America would change.
In Nashville, these twelve young disciples of these principles of non-violence (including James Zwerg) soon acted in opposition to elder community leaders and civil rights activists. They decided to take on the segregated South transportation network of 1961 without any master plan.
Those 12 college students determined to ride buses and trains--blacks and whites together across the South until something happened. When they got arrested and beat up, waves and waves of other Americans followed their examples, creating the Freedom Rider movement of America.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/eyesontheprize/story/05_riders.html
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