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Bookmark or Share- Freedom Riders National Monument (U.S. National Park Service)Freedom Riders National Monument (U.S. National Park Service) National Monument Alabama. The World Witnessed the Violence. In 1961, a small interracial band of “Freedom Riders” challenged discriminatory laws requiring separation of the races in interstate travel. They were attacked by white segregationists, who firebombed the bus.
- 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...
- Freedom Riders - WikipediaBibliography. Further reading. External links. Freedom Riders were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated Southern United States in 1961 and subsequent years to challenge the non-enforcement of the United States Supreme Court decisions Morgan v. Virginia (1946) and Boynton v.
- Freedom Rides | History, Definition, Map, Facts, & SignificanceFreedom Rides, 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 Rides | The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education ...May 4, 1961 to December 16, 1961. 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. Traveling on buses from Washington, D.C., to Jackson, Mississippi, the riders met violent opposition in the Deep South, garnering ...
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