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Bookmark or Share- We Were Prepared to Die: Freedom Riders - National Civil Rights MuseumThe Freedom Riders at Parchman experienced psychological torture for up to sixty days at a time. They were sent off to chain gangs, beaten by prison guards, and were forced to live under extreme inhumane conditions.
- Freedom Riders - WikipediaThe Freedom Rides, beginning in 1961, followed dramatic sit-ins against segregated lunch counters conducted by students and youth throughout the South, and boycotts of retail establishments that maintained segregated facilities.
- Freedom Rides | The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education ...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.
- Freedom Rides | History, Definition, Map, Facts, & Significance ...Freedom Rides, in U.S. history, a series of political protests against segregation by Blacks and whites who rode buses together through the American South in 1961. Explore the routes of the Freedom Rides of 1961 Infographic showing the routes and timeline of the Freedom Rides of 1961.
- 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 segregated bus...
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