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Freedom Rider SHARE BUTTON The historic journey of the Free- dom Riders took place nearly 60 years ago. On May 4, 1961, a group of young people, black and white, from colleges and universities across the country, boarded two buses southbound from Washington, DC on a journey NJ STAGE - ISSUE 69 by Gary Wien to prove that love and compas- sion could conquer hate and that what was a right for one American should be a right for all Americans. For them, it was a cause worth fighting for in spite of the dangers they knew they would have to face along the way. INDEX NEXT ARTICLE 16