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Bookmark or Share- Freedom Rides | The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and ...During the spring of 1961, student activists from the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) launched the Freedom Rides to challenge segregation on interstate buses and bus terminals.
- We Were Prepared to Die: Freedom RidersThe Freedom Rides were the first nationally known interracial civil rights demonstration in the South. The legacies of the Freedom Riders changed the world and inspired others to end racial discrimination in public life and will never be forgotten.
- Freedom Riders ‑ Facts, Timeline & Significance - HISTORYFreedom Riders were groups of white and African American civil rights activists who participated in Freedom Rides, bus trips through the American South in 1961 to protest...
- Freedom Rides | History, Definition, Map, Facts ...Freedom Rides were political protests against segregation by Blacks and whites who rode buses together through the U.S. South in 1961. Convinced that segregationists would violently protest this action, the Freedom Riders hoped to provoke the federal enforcement of the Supreme Court’s Boynton v. Virginia decision.
- Freedom Riders - WikipediaPolice arrested riders for trespassing, unlawful assembly, violating state and local Jim Crow laws, and other alleged offenses, but often they first let white mobs attack them without intervention.
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