- 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
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Freedom Riders facts
- Commonwealth of Virginia (1946) and Boynton v
- Virginia (1960), which ruled that segregated public buses were unconstitutional
- The Southern states had ignored the rulings and the federal government did nothing to enforce them
- The first Freedom Ride left Washington, D
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- , on May 4, 1961, and was scheduled to arrive in New Orleans on May 17
- Boynton outlawed racial segregation in the restaurants and waiting rooms in terminals serving buses that crossed state lines
- Five years prior to the Boynton ruling, the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) had issued a ruling in Sarah Keys v
- Carolina Coach Company (1955) that had explicitly denounced the Plessy v
- Ferguson (1896) doctrine of separate but equal in interstate bus travel
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