On May 17, students in Birmingham were to be arrested 'for their own good.' ___ called Governor Patterson but Patterson wouldn't talk to him. If the State of Alabama could not handle the situation, then the feds would need to step in. Floyd Mann, Patterson's security chief, vowed to protect them and got the Freedom Riders out of Birmingham and on to Montgomery.

Peace studies is an interdisciplinary academic field that draws on political science, sociology, history, anthropology, theology, psychology, philosophy, and other fields to:

understand the causes of armed conflict;
develop ways to prevent and resolve war, genocide, terrorism, gross violations of human rights; and
build peaceful and just systems and societies.