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The Freedom Rides were successful in large part because they were able to engage the media and gain a sympathetic national audience.
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The victory won by the Freedom Riders was decisive and unambiguous, expanding the freedom of African-Americans to travel through the United States.
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The Freedom Rides represented a major evolution in the tactics and strategy of the Civil Rights Movement and marked an unprecedented level of engagement with the federal government.
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Midway between the 1954 Brown school desegregation decision and the 1968 assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr, the Freedom Rides captured the zeitgeist of the decade to come.
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The Freedom Rides were one of the earliest demonstrations that Gandhian principles of nonviolence could be effective in the civil rights movement.
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The Freedom Rides brought together people of different races, religions, cultures, and economic backgrounds from across the United States.
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Meet some of the key figures of Freedom Riders .
Freedom Riders |
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Meet the key members of the US government featured in Freedom Riders .
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Meet the movement leaders featured in Freedom Riders .
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Meet the Freedom Riders.
The Abolitionists |
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In 1859, John Brown seized a federal armory at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, but failed to incite a revolution.
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Inside Pennsylvania Hall in 1838, an abolitionist meeting was disrupted when members of an anti-abolitionist mob threw rocks through the windows.
