Freedom Riders (civil rights movement)

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/Freedom_Riders_(civil_rights_movement)
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Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf civil rights activist group
gptkbp:activeDuring 1961
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Freedom Riders (civil rights movement)
gptkbp:inspiredBy Supreme Court rulings Morgan v. Virginia and Boynton v. Virginia
gptkbp:legacy influenced later civil rights activism
gptkbp:location gptkb:Southern_United_States
gptkbp:mediaCoverage national and international attention
gptkbp:method nonviolent direct action
gptkbp:notableEvent arrests in Jackson, Mississippi
attacks in Anniston, Alabama
gptkbp:notableMember gptkb:James_Farmer
gptkb:John_Lewis
gptkb:Diane_Nash
gptkb:James_Zwerg
gptkb:Joan_Trumpauer_Mulholland
gptkbp:opposedBy segregationists
gptkbp:organizedBy gptkb:Congress_of_Racial_Equality
gptkb:Student_Nonviolent_Coordinating_Committee
gptkbp:participants over 400
gptkbp:purpose challenge segregation in interstate bus terminals
gptkbp:resultedIn Interstate Commerce Commission ban on segregated bus and train stations
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Greyhound_buses
gptkbp:bfsLayer 7