Mississippi Trial, 1955

Civil rights era

What were the “freedom rides”?

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The 1961 Freedom Rides sought to test a 1960 decision by the Supreme Court in Boynton v. Virginia that segregation of interstate transportation facilities, including bus terminals, was unconstitutional as well. Activists rode interstate buses into the segregated Southern United States to test the laws.

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