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Freedom Rides

American civil rights activists of the 1960sLead figuresCORE membersJames FarmerGordon CareySNCC and Nashville Student Movement membersDiane NashJohn LewisJames LawsonBernard LafayetteJames BevelGovernorsRoss BarnettJohn M. PattersonCity of BirminghamEugene "Bull" ConnorTom CookFreedom Riders were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregatedSouthern United States in 1961 and subsequent years to challenge the non-enforcement of the United States Supreme Court decisions Morgan v. Virginia (1946) and Boynton v. Virginia (1960), which ruled that segregated public buses were unconstitutional.

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