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  2. Freedom Riders - Wikipedia

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    The Freedom Riders challenged this status quo by riding interstate buses in the South in mixed racial groups to challenge local laws or customs that enforced segregation in seating. The Freedom Rides, and the violent reactions they provoked, bolstered the credibility of the American Civil Rights Movement. They called national attention to the ...

  3. Anniston and Birmingham bus attacks - Wikipedia

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    The Freedom Rides of 1961 and the May 14 attacks are considered a vital event in the civil rights movement. They are a prominent example of the successful use of nonviolence to effect political change. They helped inspire further activism in the form of Freedom Schools, involvement with the Black Power movement, and voter registration campaigns ...

  4. Charles Person, youngest Freedom Rider who faced brutal ... - AOL

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    Charles Person, the youngest member of the original Freedom Riders who faced racial violence to challenge segregation in interstate travel, died Jan. 8 in Fayetteville, Georgia. He was 82. In 1961 ...

  5. Charles Person - Wikipedia

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    Charles Person (September 27, 1942 – January 8, 2025) was an African-American civil rights activist who was the youngest Freedom Rider of the 1961 Freedom Rides.He was born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia.

  6. Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice

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    Additionally, the work notes that 24% of respondents of a Gallup Poll conducted in 1961 were in favor of the Freedom Rides, while 66% of the respondents of the same poll believed that racial segregation in bus transportation should be abolished; by the time the book was published, reception was highly positive to the Freedom Rides.

  7. Driver for 1961 Freedom Riders, Herbert Young, dies - AOL

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    Herbert Young was 25 years old in 1961 when he made history busing Freedom Riders through Alabama’s capital city of The post Driver for 1961 Freedom Riders, Herbert Young, dies appeared first on ...

  8. Freedom Riders National Monument - Wikipedia

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    The Freedom Riders National Monument is one of three National Monuments that was designated by presidential proclamation of President Obama on January 12, 2017. The second was the Birmingham Civil Rights National Monument and the third, the Reconstruction Era National Historical Park, was re-designated as a National Historical Park on March 12 ...

  9. 75 years after sentencing Freedom Riders to the chain ... - AOL

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    Legendary civil rights leader Bayard Rustin and three other men who were sentenced to work on a chain gang in The post 75 years after sentencing Freedom Riders to the chain gang, N.C. tosses out ...