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Freedom Riders

Published on Nov 24, 2015

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Freedom Riders

Sandra Valdez
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On May 4,1961 a group joined together to start Freedom Riders

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They faced a mob of 3,000 angry white people.

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The Freedom Riders (13 African-American) rode a bus trough the Americam South to protect segregation in bus terminals.

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The next few months, several hundred Riders engaged.

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There were over300 armed gards to protect the buses.

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