US Freedom Rides

GPTKB entity

Statements (51)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf protest
direct action campaign
gptkbp:aimsTo ending racial segregation in interstate bus travel
gptkbp:beganIn 1961-05-04
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label US Freedom Rides
gptkbp:influenced gptkb:Civil_Rights_Act_of_1964
desegregation of interstate travel
gptkbp:lawEnforcementTarget gptkb:Jim_Crow_laws
segregation in public transportation
gptkbp:method nonviolent resistance
interracial bus rides
gptkbp:notableEvent Anniston bus burning
Jackson arrests
Montgomery bus station attack
gptkbp:notableParticipant gptkb:Bernard_Lafayette
gptkb:C.T._Vivian
gptkb:Fred_Shuttlesworth
gptkb:James_Farmer
gptkb:John_Lewis
gptkb:Stokely_Carmichael
gptkb:William_Sloane_Coffin
gptkb:Charles_Person
gptkb:Diane_Nash
gptkb:Ed_Blankenheim
gptkb:Genevieve_Hughes
gptkb:James_Peck
gptkb:Joan_Trumpauer_Mulholland
gptkb:Ruby_Doris_Smith-Robinson
gptkb:Jim_Zwerg
gptkbp:opposedBy segregationists
gptkbp:organizedBy gptkb:Congress_of_Racial_Equality
gptkb:Student_Nonviolent_Coordinating_Committee
gptkbp:relatedTo gptkb:Birmingham_campaign
gptkb:March_on_Washington
gptkb:Montgomery_Bus_Boycott
gptkb:Selma_to_Montgomery_marches
gptkb:Sit-in_movement
gptkbp:response gptkb:government
gptkb:Attorney_General_Robert_F._Kennedy
gptkb:Interstate_Commerce_Commission
gptkbp:resultedIn increased national attention to civil rights
desegregation of interstate bus terminals
violence against activists
arrests of Freedom Riders
gptkbp:subjectOf gptkb:PBS_American_Experience_documentary
gptkb:Freedom_Riders_(2010_film)
Freedom Riders (book by Raymond Arsenault)
gptkbp:supportedBy gptkb:activist
gptkbp:tookPlaceIn gptkb:United_States
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Australian_Freedom_Ride
gptkbp:bfsLayer 8