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Primary source documents related to the Civil Rights activists, the Freedom Riders. The Freedom Riders traveled on interstate buses into the segregated South to test the United States Supreme Court decision, Boynton v. Virginia, which had outlawed racial segregation in the restaurants and waiting rooms in terminals serving buses that crossed state lines.
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The Freedom Riders rode various forms of public transportation in the South to challenge local laws or customs that enforced segregation. The Freedom Rides, and the violent reactions they provoked, bolstered the credibility of the Civil Rights Movement and called national attention to the violent disregard for the law that was used to enforce segregation in the southern United States. Riders were arrested for trespassing, unlawful assembly, and violating state and local Jim Crow laws, along with other alleged offenses.
Coverage: 1961
Vendor: Gale
Producer: Federal Bureau of Investigation Library
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