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www.history.com › black-history › freedom-rides

www.bam.org › study-guide › freedom-riders › context

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the thirteenth and fourteenth amendments were being violated by the separate car act.

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the cartoon is saying that it doesn't matter if your black or white you are respected and you are an american citizen.

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there was bus filled with mixed racial groups and show local laws that enforced segregation in seating. freedom rides ended segregation in southern US.

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in 1961 freedom riders to test a decision by supreme court in boynton v. Virginia  that segregation of transportation was unconstitutional as well also bus terminals were. black riders decided to travel Jim crow south where segregation was big and use whites only restroom, waiting rooms, etc.

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the strategy of nonviolence when confronted with violence opposition protesters believed to be an unjust policy.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zBY6gkpbTg

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may 14, 1961- the greyhound bus was the first to arrive in anniston Alabama
may 24, 1961- a group of freedom riders departed Montgomery , that same day Kennedy initiates a "cooling off" for violence.

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student nonviolent coordinating committee
was a civil-rights group formed to give younger blacks more of a voice in the civil rights movement.

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led the freedom riders. born in 1920 and died in 1999. helped shape the civil rights movement

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one of the original group of 13 freedom riders. elected to the US house of representatives in Nov 1986.

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were groups of white and African American civil rights activists who participated in Freedom Rides, bus trips through the American South in 1961 to protest segregated bus terminals