Freedom Ride (1961)

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Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf protest
gptkbp:date 1961
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Freedom Ride (1961)
gptkbp:influencedBy gptkb:Boynton_v._Virginia
gptkbp:legacy inspired further civil rights activism
gptkbp:location gptkb:Southern_United_States
gptkbp:mediaCoverage national attention
gptkbp:notableEvent arrests in Jackson, Mississippi
bus firebombed in Anniston, Alabama
mob attack in Birmingham, Alabama
gptkbp:notableParticipant gptkb:James_Farmer
gptkb:John_Lewis
gptkb:Diane_Nash
gptkbp:opposedBy segregationists
gptkbp:organizedBy gptkb:Congress_of_Racial_Equality
gptkb:Student_Nonviolent_Coordinating_Committee
gptkbp:participants gptkb:Freedom_Riders
gptkbp:purpose challenge segregation in interstate bus terminals
gptkbp:relatedTo gptkb:Civil_Rights_Movement
gptkb:Jim_Crow_laws
gptkbp:resultedIn federal intervention
Interstate Commerce Commission ban on segregation
arrests of riders
violence against riders
gptkbp:route Washington, D.C. to New Orleans
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Genevieve_Hughes
gptkbp:bfsLayer 6