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freedom rides
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Freedom Riders
Freedom Riders
were
civil rights activists
who rode interstate buses into the
segregated
southern United States
in 1961 and following years to challenge the non-enforcement of the
United States Supreme Court
decisions
Irene Morgan v. Commonwealth of Virginia
(1946) and
Boynton v. Virginia
(1960), which ruled that segregated public buses were unconstitutional. The Southern states had ignored the rulings and the federal government did nothing to enforce them. The first Freedom Ride left
Washington, D.C.
, on May 4, 1961, and was scheduled to arrive in
New Orleans
on May 17.
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