freedom rider

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Definition von freedom rider im Englisch Englisch wörterbuch: A participant in one or more of the similar excursions undertaken by protesters in Australia during the 1960s, in opposition to unfair discrimination against Aborigines; In the United States during the 1960s, a civil rights activist who participated in one or more bus trips, known as freedom rides, through parts of the southern U. S. to demonstrate 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..; one of an interracial group of civil rights activists who rode buses through parts of the South in order to protest racial segregation; 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