Freedom Ride

freedom ride English Noun Freedom Ride en freedom ride. en w:Diane Nash Inside the Sit-ins and Freedom Rides: Testimony of a Southern Student Mathew H. Ahmann The New Negro New York, N.Y. Biblo and Tannen 1961 1969 58 https://books.google.com/books?id=fdiGYA8g-34C&pg=PA58 16128 It is a slight miracle, I think, that in the almost two years since February of 1960 there has not been a fatality. But we have come amazingly close to it several times. Let me mention the case of William Barbee who was on the Freedom Ride when it arrived at Montgomery and met with mob violence.[...] At that moment a Negro man was passing by. He was on his way to pay a bill. It was just a regular day in his life until he saw one of the mobsters with his foot upon William Barbee's neck. [...] So he turned around and pulled the man off. Well, Mr. Nichols landed in the hospital next to Barbee. en Rachel Tisdale w:James Zwerg The Nation Takes Notice The Freedom Riders We Shall Overcome New York, N.Y. Rosen Publishing Group 1961 (year of quotation) 2014 20 https://books.google.com/books?id=PsrnAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA20 978-1-4777-6061-1 Segregation must be stopped. It must be broken down. Those of us on the Freedom Ride will continue. No matter what happens we are dedicated to this. We will take the beatings. We are willing to accept death. We are going to keep coming until we can ride anywhere in the South. en w:James Forman Lucretia Collins: ‘The Spirit of Nashville’ The Making of Black Revolutionaries illustrated Seattle, Wash.; London w:University of Washington Press 1972 2000 book 1 (A Constant Struggle) 146 https://books.google.com/books?id=Y2RIhBEy7dEC&pg=PA146 978-0-295-97659-4 The Freedom Rides had reached their peak in June but were not over, and the ferment stirred up by them had by no means subsided. [...] It was the Nashville Student Movement that had continued the Freedom Rides when CORE [Congress of Racial Equality], the original sponsor, had declared them too dangerous and had withdrawn. These students had a right to feel proud and sure of themselves. en Contributors Wayne Hudson; w:Geoffrey Bolton Creating Australia: Changing Australian History St. Leonards, N.S.W. w:Allen & Unwin 1997 vii https://books.google.com/books?id=UWTs9Iyyf2UC&pg=PR7 978-1-86373-560-5 Ann Curthoys is Professor of History at the Australian National University, Canberra. She has written widely on questions of gender, race and ethnicity in Australian history, and is currently working on a history of the Freedom Ride of 1965.