FIRST FREEDOM RIDE WAS ON THIS DAY IN 1947

Black History From the Year You Were Born - Newsweek

Freedom Rides – African American Civil Rights Movement

On April 9, 1947, the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) sent 16
Black and white activists on a bus ride through the American
South to test a recent Supreme Court decision striking down
segregation on interstate bus travel. The so-called
Journey of Reconciliation, which lasted two weeks, was an important
precursor to the
Freedom Rides of the 1960s.

Judges vacates convictions of anti segregation bus riders | Raleigh News & Observer

                                 
                         Pinback button for CORE's Freedom Rides | National Museum of African  American History and Culture

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