Sample Sentences forFreedom Riders (editor-reviewed)
-
•
She mapped every arrest tied to the Freedom Riders and compared how local papers covered them.Freedom Riders = civil rights activists who rode interstate buses in the South to test and enforce desegregation rulings (1961)
-
•
Freedom Riders—African Americans and whites—took bus trips throughout the South to test federal laws that banned segregation in interstate transportation. (source)
-
•
When the Freedom Riders' bus traveled through Alabama, they were abandoned by the police. (source)
Show 3 more sentences
-
•
Mr. Hill had a comrade from the freedom riders, a college professor who'd landed a job at Melvin Griggs Technical, the colored college just south of Tallahassee. (source)
-
•
So let him march; let him make prayer pilgrimages to the city hall; let him go on freedom rides—and try to understand why he must do so. (source)freedom rides = rides of civil rights activists who rode interstate buses in the South to test and enforce desegregation rulings (1961)
-
•
Bobby Kennedy was instrumental in helping civil rights activists known as Freedom Riders travel by bus into the South to fight segregation in 1961. (source)Freedom Riders = civil rights activists who rode interstate buses in the South to test and enforce desegregation rulings (1961)
▲ show less (of above)
Show 10 more with 3 word variations
-
•
This was a time when townspeople in nearby Anniston clubbed riders and burned the buses of the Freedom Riders. (source)Freedom Riders = civil rights activists who rode interstate buses in the South to test and enforce desegregation rulings (1961)
-
•
They stopped reading the signs about voter rights and freedom rides. (source)freedom rides = rides by civil rights activists who rode interstate buses in the South to test and enforce desegregation rulings (1961)
-
•
He'd first visited Florida the previous summer, when he stepped off a bus from Washington, DC, in Tallahassee as a freedom rider. (source)freedom rider = a civil rights activist who rode interstate buses in the South to test and enforce desegregation rulings (1961)
-
•
That bus with the Freedom Riders had just been destroyed-and Robert and one of them laws was standing side the car talking about it. (source)Freedom Riders = civil rights activists who rode interstate buses in the South to test and enforce desegregation rulings (1961)
-
•
That's a lot more than what Miss Stein told us before, but since the freedom rides started and them civil rights workers disappeared in that station wagon here in Mississippi, she say folks is paying more attention to our state. (source)
-
•
Then along came Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr. and the Freedom Riders, along with eye-opening books like John Howard Griffin's Black Like Me. (source)
-
•
The experiment that led to writing Black Like Me was done at the very end of 1959, before the first "freedom rides" or any other manifestation of national concern about racial injustice. (source)freedom rides = rides of civil rights activists who rode interstate buses in the South to test and enforce desegregation rulings (1961)
-
•
As governor, he withheld law enforcement protection for the Freedom Riders— (source)Freedom Riders = civil rights activists who rode interstate buses in the South to test and enforce desegregation rulings (1961)
-
•
A pioneer in the Civil Rights Movement and one of the principal organizers of the March on Washington in 1963, Lewis often risked his life to challenge segregation during the Freedom Rides and to secure the right to vote for African Americans. (source)
-
•
Reverend King and the Freedom Riders was winning the battle in Alabama and Mi'sippi, but us here in Luzana hadn't even started the fight. (source)
▲ show less (of above)