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The Freedom Riders by Watkins, Gary is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Freedom Riders about?
Freedom Riders were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States in 1961 and following years to challenge the non-enforcement of the United States Supreme Court decisions Irene Morgan v. Commonwealth of Virginia (1946) and Boynton v. Virginia (1960), [1] which ruled that segregated public buses were unconstitutional.[2] The Southern states had ignored the rulings and the federal government did nothing to enforce them. The first Freedom Ride left Was
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Watkins, Gary
- Publisher
- CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- Published
- 2014
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781495292217
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- History, Humanities
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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