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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)
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Freedom Riders—African Americans and whites—took bus trips throughout the South to test federal laws that banned segregation in interstate transportation. (source)
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When the Freedom Riders' bus traveled through Alabama, they were abandoned by the police. (source)
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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)
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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)
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This was a time when townspeople in nearby Anniston clubbed riders and burned the buses of the Freedom Riders. (source)
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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)Freedom Riders = civil rights activists who rode interstate buses in the South to test and enforce desegregation rulings (1961)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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As governor, he withheld law enforcement protection for the Freedom Riders— (source)
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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)
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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)Freedom Riders = civil rights activists who rode interstate buses in the South to test and enforce desegregation rulings (1961)
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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)
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In the 1960s, blacks like Dr. King led the civil rights movement, but they received crucial backing from Freedom Riders and other white supporters.† (source)
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