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jan 11, 1961 - Freedom riders

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In 1961 a group of college student took interstate buses to the south to prove segregation and brutality was still there. The south did not take that well and in Anniston, AL the buses were bombed and burned. The teams greatest ally was television.

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jan 11, 1961
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~ 65 years ago

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