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0h 50min, may 4, 1961 y - Freedom Riders

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Freedom Riders were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States, in 1961 and subsequent years, in order to challenge the non-enforcement of the United States Supreme Court decisions Morgan v. Virginia (1946) and Boynton v. Virginia which ruled that segregated public buses were unconstitutional.

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0h 50min, may 4, 1961 y
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~ 64 years ago