may 4, 1961 - Freedom Rides
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the first Freedom Ride took place on May 4, 1961 when seven blacks and six whites left Washington, D.C., on two public buses bound for the Deep South. They intended to test the Supreme Court's ruling in Boynton v. Virginia (1960), which declared segregation in interstate bus and rail stations unconstitutional. They ended in december the same year. But in the second week the riders were severely beaten.
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