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Freedom Riders - Wikipedia
by Raymond Arsenault Oxford University Press 2006, 2011 SKU: 9780199754311 The saga of the Freedom Rides is an improbable, almost unbelievable story.
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Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice
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The Power of the Press, American Experience, Official Site
They were black and white, young and old, men and women. In the spring and summer of 1961, they put their lives on the line, riding buses through the
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Freedom riders' 1947 convictions vacated in North Carolina
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AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: Freedom Riders: The Young Witness
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