freedom ride

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Definition von freedom ride im Englisch Englisch wörterbuch: Any one of similar excursions undertaken by protesters in Australia during the 1960s, in opposition to unfair discrimination against Aborigines; In the United States during the 1960s, any one of a number of bus trips through parts of the southern U. S., made by groups of civil rights activists demonstrating their opposition to racial prejudice and segregation
A Negro leader said today the freedom riders whose arrival here touched off race riots last Saturday will continue their test of Southern bus station segregation barriers. . . . he Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. . . told a news conference the group met for four hours last night and decided that the freedom ride must continue..; bus trip to the southern United States during the 1960s made in an effort to integrate racially segregated locations

freedom ride