4 magg 1961 anni - Freedom Riders

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13 people bound for New Orleans boarded two public buses in Washington. D.C.

Calling themselves the Freedom Riders, the interracial group--southern and northern men and women, many of them in their 20s--sought to test federal laws intended to help desegregate the Deep South.

For the next few weeks, the Freedom Riders traveled from one southern city to the next, trying to integrate "whites only" waiting rooms and lunch counters--and enduring arrests, beatings, and fire bombings along the way. By the time they headed home, some with black eyes and broken bones, the attention they had brought to just how widespread segregation still was in the South had energized the civil rights movement. And their actions culminated in landmark civil rights laws a few years later.

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