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We Were Prepared for the Possibility of Death: Freedom Riders in the South, 1961
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We Were Prepared for the Possibility of Death: Freedom Riders in the South, 1961
To test President John F. Kennedy’s commitment to civil rights, the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) proposed a Journey of Reconciliation. The “Freedom Ride” had an interracial group boarding buses destined for the South. At rest stops, whites would go into blacks-only areas and vice versa. “I think all of us were prepared for as […]
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