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Freedom Riders
May 14, 2012 by
mfsense2
Throughout the month of May in 1961, groups of civil right activists, known collectively as the Freedom Riders, boarded interstate buses traveling through the southern United States. Three separate United States Supreme Court decisions – Irene Morgan v. Commonwealth of Virginia (1946), Sarah Keys v. Carolina Coach Company (1955) and Boynton v. Virginia (1960) — [...]
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