Freedom Riders

1. A group of northern idealists active in the civil rights movement . The Freedom Riders, who included both blacks and whites, rode buses into the South in the early 1960s in order to challenge racial segregation . Freedom Riders were regularly attacked by mobs of angry whites and received often belated protection from federal officers.

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Many of the white Freedom Riders and student pickets came from Jewish households.

From The Daily Beast