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The 'Freedom Rides', 1961

In 1961, groups of young Americans, both black and white, rode interstate buses into the South to challenge laws that enforced racial segregation. Organised by the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee and the Congress of Racial Equality, the Freedom-Riders were entirely non-violent. However, they met a frightening level of violence from mobs of Southern racists.

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