Description
In the summer of 1961, the Freedom Riders, a group of mostly young people, both black and white, including Charles McDew, risked their lives to challenge the system of segregation in interstate travel in the South.The University of Mississippi's Freedom riders oral history project includes interviews recorded in conjunction with the 40th anniversary of that summer.
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Digital Library of GeorgiaKeywords
- African American Civil Rights Workers
- African Americans
- Alabama
- Anniston (Ala.)
- Arrest
- Boycotts
- Brown, Oliver, 1918
- Bus Occupants
- Bus Terminals
- Bus Travel
- Buses
- Christian Ethics
- Civil Rights
- Civil Rights Demonstrations
- Civil Rights Movements
- Civil Rights Workers
- Congress Of Racial Equality
- Courage
- Direct Action
- Discrimination
- Discrimination In Education
- Discrimination In Public Accommodations
- Education
- Ethics
- Fear
- Freedom Rides, 1961
- Greensboro
- Hate
- History
- Interviews
- Jackson (Miss.)
- Ku Klux Klan (1915 )
- Mississippi
- Montgomery
- Moving Images
- National Association For The Advancement Of Colored People
- Nonviolence
- North Carolina
- Ohio
- Oral Histories
- Painter, Theophilus S. (Theophilus Shickel), 1889 1969
- Plessy, Homer Adolph
- Police
- Race Relations
- Racism
- Reunions
- Segregation
- Segregation In Transportation
- Singing
- Slaver
- Slavery
- South Carolina
- Southern Christian Leadership Conference
- Southern States
- Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)
- Students
- Sweatt, Heman Marion, 1912 1982
- Taxation
- Texas
- Threats
- Topeka (Kan.). Board Of Education
- Trials, Litigation, Etc
- United States
- Universities
- University Of Mississippi
- University Of Texas
- Violence
- Violent Deaths
- Youth