View Freedom Riders Bus Bombing Background. These people helped black people register to vote. The purpose of their bus rides were to sit a black citizen and a white citizen side by side on a bus in attempt to.

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These people helped black people register to vote. When the freedom riders exited the bus, they beaten by the mob with baseball bats, iron pipes and bicycle chains, and then, battered and bleeding, they were arrested. Civil rights activists test supreme court decision.

Though the freedom ride is well known in civil rights history, it was not the first time that segregation in transport had been challenged in the deep south.

Hundreds of freedom riders continued the mission over the next several months. The purpose of their bus rides were to sit a black citizen and a white citizen side by side on a bus in attempt to. The bus was fire bombed, the freedom riders pulled of the bus and beaten. This is the official twitter site for freedom riders national monument.