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.ÿþcommercial issues; what is unusualabout Ride On Red, Ride On is thenote of explicit and bitter criticism.Although Red portrays himself travel-ing in the opposite direction, passingthe segregated towns of Shreveport,Louisiana, and Little Rock, Arkansas,it is quite likely that the song wasinspired by the hardships enduredby the Freedom Riders.17 The bus heboards departs from New Orleans,which was the intended destinationof the riders.Far from detaining him,the local segregationists are keen tosee him go and he is only too happyto comply, given the indignities he Woodmen, Spare That Tree! Courtesy Chicagohas to endure.Red offers no com-Defender, 8 September 1962.ment on the civil rights movement,but it is evident that without theintervention of the federal government, little progress can be made.The White Citizens Council (5 Louisiana Red s Citizens Commis-sion ) had been established in Greenwood, Mississippi, shortly after the1954 5 Brown v.Board of Education decisions were rendered.Sister brancheshad spread throughout the South with the aim of maintaining segregation.Red sings that the councils paid the fares for those African Americans whowere ready to leave the South.sp: Board!Ride on, Louisiana Red, ride on!Left my home in Vicksburg, started traveling north,Made it to New Orleans where the bus was taking off,Citizens Committee, giving away the fare, You don t like the South, boy, just go on away from here. ch: Ride on, Louisiana Red, ride on,Ride on to your freedom, make the Northern states your home.M a r c h O n , D r.M a r t i n L u t h e r K i n g [ 8 1 ]
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