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freedom rider
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freedom rider
n.
One of an interracial group of civil rights activists in the early 1960s who rode buses through parts of the southern United States for the purpose of challenging racial segregation.
freedom ride n.
freedom rider
n
(Government, Politics & Diplomacy) US a person who participated, esp in the 1960s, in an organized tour, usually by public transport in the South, in order to protest against racism and put federal laws on integration to the test
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Noun1.freedom rider - one of an interracial group of civil rights activists who rode buses through parts of the South in order to protest racial segregation
civil rights activist, civil rights leader, civil rights worker - a leader of the political movement dedicated to securing equal opportunity for members of minority groups
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Our goal: to document the unveiling of the national Freedom Riders Memorial and conduct on-location interviews with the Freedom Riders.
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There were re-enactors from a black Civil War regiment, World War II's surviving Tuskegee Airmen and Freedom Riders from the civil rights movement.
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Not a few of the 1961 Freedom Riders rode against the wishes—and worries—of their parents, but none confused such postadolescent rebellions with the political act itself.
We Shall Photograph by Jonathan Liu / The New York Observer
 
 
 
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