Freedom Rider
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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
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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.
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