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Freedom Riders

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. Virginia (1960), which ruled that segregated public buses were unconstitutional.

Freedom Riders
Freedom Riders · Adam Jones from Kelowna, BC, Canada, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
When
4 May 1961 – 10 Dec 1961
Where
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Era
Contemporary

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