Thursday, May 5, 2011

Freedom riders

Freedom riders were civil rights activists that rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States to test the United States Supreme Court decision Boynton v. Virginia (of 1960).[1] The first Freedom Ride left Washington, D.C., on May 4, 1961,[2] and was scheduled to arrive in New Orleans on May 17.[3]

Boynton v. Virginia had outlawed racial segregation in the restaurants and

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