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Jan 20, 2022 ... Freedom Riders were groups of white and African American civil rights activists who participated in Freedom Rides, bus trips through the ...
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The Freedom Rides were first conceived in 1947 when CORE and the Fellowship of Reconciliation organized an interracial bus ride across state lines to test a ...
Freedom Riders - Wikipedia
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Freedom Riders were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated Southern United States in 1961 and subsequent years to challenge ...
The Freedom Riders, Then and Now | History| Smithsonian Magazine
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The bus passengers assaulted that day were Freedom Riders, among the first of more than 400 volunteers who traveled throughout the South on regularly ...
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May 16, 2011 ... Deliberately violating Jim Crow laws in order to test and challenge a segregated interstate travel system, the Freedom Riders met with bitter ...
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Sep 5, 2022 ... Freedom Rides, in U.S. history, a series of political protests against segregation by Blacks and whites who rode buses together through the ...
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Rev. Ralph Abernathy was a key figure in the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s and beyond. As the young pastor of First Baptist Church in Montgomery, Al, ...
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Oct 5, 2021 ... Freedom Riders National Monument is a National Park Service unit located in Anniston, Alabama. It is a park in progress with limited ...
Who Were the Freedom Riders? - The New York Times
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Jul 18, 2020 ... The Freedom Rides, which began in May 1961 and ended late that year, were organized by CORE's national director, James Farmer. The mission of ...
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Oct 15, 2019 ... On May 29, 1961, Attorney General Robert Kennedy petitioned the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) to issue regulations banning segregation, ...