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freedom rider

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freedom rider
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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
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(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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native who founded the Freedom Forum First Amendment Center at Vanderbilt University, and who was the government's chief negotiator in 1961 during the violence-riddled Freedom Rides throughout the South - he was knocked unconscious while saving a woman Freedom Rider from an angry mob - was somewhat stymied when asked by a student what the next social change movement might be.
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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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