Freedom Summer/Riders (may 4, 1961 – dec 10, 1961)
Description:
The Freedom Riders were civil-rights activists who rode buses into segregated southern states to challenge the non-enforcement of segregated buses being unconstitutional. In Anniston, Alabama the activists' bus was firebombed by a mob of Klansmen who intended to kill them.#EnforceEquality
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Date:
may 4, 1961
dec 10, 1961
~ 7 months