The Freedom Riders

Witness: Archive 2011 by BBC

Oct 7, 20138:54Society & Culture

The Freedom Riders were civil rights activists who rode on buses, testing out whether bus stations were complying with the Supreme Court ruling that banned segregation. Listen to Bernard Lafayette Junior, an eyewitness t...

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