However, the earliest known reference is more specific: Inquiry of an Italian employee of the bureau elicited the information that a âgandy dancerâ is a railway worker who tamps down the earth between the ties, or otherwise âdancesâ on the track.
Eventually the federal government intervened to see that integration was enforced. By the time the Freedom Rides were over, segregation had suffered another blow. The Freedom Rides became a defining part of the civil rights movement, and the Freedom Riders became models of the heroism that transformed race relations.
Students will gain an understanding of a personâs role, the significance of an event, issue or legislation and its impact on the struggle for racial equality in the Civil Rights Movement.eary Feet, Rested Souls: A Guided History of the Civil Rights Movement. New York, New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Ltd. Jacobs Altman, Linda (2004). The American Civil Rights Movement: The African-American Struggle for Equality. Berkely Hts., New Jersey: Enslow Publishers.