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American civil rights activists of the s

"Freedom ride" redirects here. For the Australian Freedom Ride, see Freedom Ride (Australia).

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For the book, see Freedom Riders: and the Struggle for Racial Justice.

Freedom Riders
Mugshots of Freedom Riders, as displayed at the Center for Civil and Human Rights in Atlanta, Georgia
Date	May 4&#;– December 10, (7&#;months and 6&#;days)
Location	Southern United States, First Baptist Church, Parchman Farm and Jackson, Mississippi
Caused by
Resulted in
CORE members SNCC and Nashville Student Movement members Governors City of Birmingham

Freedom Riders were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregatedSouthernUnited States in and subsequent years to challenge the non-enforcement of the United States Supreme Court decisions Morgan v.

Virginia () and Boynton v. Virginia (), which ruled that segregated public buses were unconstitutional.^[3]