Summary

In Chapter 11, “Hitchhikers – And the Students Left Behind,” three teenagers, Frank Thomas, Robert Avery, and James Smith decide to hitchhike from Gadsden, Alabama to the march in Washington DC. They manage to procure their parents’ blessing as they decide to hitchhike to Washington because of a lack of funds for public transportation. It was dangerous for three young Black men to be out at night in that part of the country. Late at night in Chattanooga, TN a bus pulls up, and the bus driver lets them on, calling them crazy for being out alone at night.

After eventually disembarking from this bus, the young men hold a sign asking for rides, and a white man pulls over and makes a loud noise to scare the men into thinking he has a bomb. In Virginia, they see a dummy hanging as...