The 1961 Freedom Rides on public buses tested compliance with court orders to desegregate interstate transportation terminals. The trips enabled students from both the South and the North to protest away from campus and to form a tightly knit community of activists. National civil rights leaders launched these efforts to involve poor blacks and other blacks who had been uninvolved until then. The movements included door-to-door voter education projects in rural Mississippi, "The Birmingham Campaign" to desegregate public accommodations in the city, and "Freedom Summer," to try to unseat the regular delegation at the 1964 Democratic Convention and to publicize the disenfranchisement of southern blacks. Finally, Blacks would secure their god-given rights as American Citizens.
             In 1963 Kennedy put together a Civil Right bill, which brought Kennedy in great favor in the eyes of the Black community. Schools and public places were now desegregated. Discriminating against a black man when hiring for a position was now against the law. Other bills
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