Freedom Ridersin a sentence
- When the Freedom Riders' bus traveled through Alabama, they were abandoned by the police.† (source)
- Freedom Riders—African Americans and whites—took bus trips throughout the South to test federal laws that banned segregation in interstate transportation.† (source)
- " 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)
- They stopped reading the signs about voter rights and freedom rides.† (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)
- This was a time when townspeople in nearby Anniston clubbed riders and burned the buses of the Freedom Riders.† (source)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- Epilogue What's Happened Since Black Like Me 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)
- 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)
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- As governor, he withheld law enforcement protection for the Freedom Riders—the black and white college students and activists who traveled south in the early 1960s to desegregate public facilities in recognition of new federal laws.† (source)
- 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)
- Today, the international movement for women needs "freedom riders" as well--writing letters, sending money, or volunteering their time.† (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)
- With the beginning of the freedom rides, the sit-ins, the display of heroic courage and commitment on the part of many who engaged in these activities, and with the rallying around Martin Luther King's philosophy of nonviolent resistance, that feeling of despair began to change into hope.† (source)
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