The Dangerous Ride Towards Freedom (The Story of the Freedom Riders)

01/09/23 • 12 min

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Freedom Riders were a group of activists who rode interstate buses to challenge the enforcement of two Supreme Court decisions, which ruled that segregated public buses were unconstitutional.
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In struggle : SNCC and the Black awakening of the 1960s
by Carson, Clayborne
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_Riders
https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/encyclopedia/freedom-rides
https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/freedom-rides#:~:text=Freedom%20Riders%20were%20groups%20of,to%20protest%20segregated%20bus%20terminals.
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