Chris Browning The Broadside The Black Student Union is back on the club scene. Due to dwindling participation, the club went on hiatus for much of the 2010-2011 school year. Now, the BSU is filing to become an Associated Students of Central Oregon Community College sponsored club once again. “It’s a work in progress,” said [...] [...more]
Stanley Nelson directs “Freedom Riders,” a 2011 documentary about the 13 civil rights activists who tested the anti-segregation laws on the interstate bus systems and in the waiting rooms in the early ‘60s in the deep south. The Freedom Riders—eventually numbering in the hundreds—challenged local Jim Crow laws and customs non-violently, but many were harassed, [...] [...more]
Kirsteen Wolf The Broadside If you have read the book “The Help”—even if you started off determined not to like it—you were most likely swept up by the compelling story. You were not alone. It spent two years on the best-seller list despite being rejected by publishers 60 times. The movie is superbly cast with [...] [...more]
Scott Greenstone The Broadside The Freedom Rides of 1961 weren’t the first time Claude Liggins was discriminated against on public transit. When Liggins was in his mid-teens, he decided to sit on the white half of a Lake Charles, La. bus. After telling Liggins he would call the police, the bus driver pulled over at [...] [...more]
