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Eckelmann, Susan

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Encyclopedia article about the 1961 Freedom Rides, public bus trips undertaken by racially integrated groups through the Deep South to test the enforcement of a newly enacted court order prohibiting segregation in interstate bus terminals. The riders were met with hostility and violence in a number of states, but they encountered some of the worst violence in Alabama. Civil authorities at the state and local levels actively refrained from protecting the participants from violent mobs, forcing the federal government to intervene. The nonviolent protests played a key role in publicizing the hostility facing the civil rights movement.The Civil Rights Digital Library received support from a National Leadership Grant for Libraries awarded to the University of Georgia by the Institute of Museum and Library Services for the aggregation and enhancement of partner metadata.
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Keywords

  1. African Americans
  2. Alabama
  3. Anniston
  4. Arrest
  5. Assault And Battery
  6. Birmingham
  7. Bombings
  8. Bus Lines
  9. Bus Terminals
  10. Buses
  11. Civil Rights
  12. Civil Rights Workers
  13. Compliance
  14. Congress Of Racial Equality
  15. Crimes Against
  16. Direct Action
  17. Discrimination
  18. Discrimination In Restaurants
  19. Federal State Controversies
  20. Freedom Rides, 1961
  21. Government
  22. Government, Resistance To
  23. Greyhound Lines
  24. History
  25. Imprisonment
  26. Incendiary Bombs
  27. Interstate Commerce
  28. Intervention (Federal Government)
  29. Intimidation
  30. Jails
  31. Ku Klux Klan (1915)
  32. Mobs
  33. Montgomery
  34. Nonviolence
  35. Offenses Against The Person
  36. Police
  37. Police Chiefs
  38. Politics And Government
  39. Race Discrimination
  40. Race Relations
  41. Race Riots
  42. Racism
  43. Railroad Stations
  44. Railroad Travel
  45. Railroads
  46. Restaurants
  47. Riots
  48. Rock Hill
  49. Segregation
  50. Segregation In Transportation
  51. Segregationists
  52. Social Conditions
  53. Social Justice
  54. South Carolina
  55. Southern States
  56. Trailways
  57. Travel
  58. United States
  59. United States. Interstate Commerce Commission
  60. Violence
  61. Violence Against
  62. White Supremacy Movements

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