Freedom Rides: Facts & Related Content


Facts

Date May 4, 1961 - September 1961
Location United States
Context American civil rights movement

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Timeline

Where the Greensboro sit-in happened
sit-in movement
1960 - 1961
Freedom Riders
Freedom Rides
May 4, 1961 - September 1961
March on Washington
March on Washington
August 28, 1963
Watts Riots, 1966
Watts Riots of 1965
August 11, 1965 - August 16, 1965
Mildred and Richard Loving
Loving v. Virginia
June 12, 1967

Key People

Fred Shuttlesworth
Fred Shuttlesworth
American minister and civil rights activist
John Lewis
John Lewis
American civil rights leader and politician
Diane Nash
Diane Nash
American civil rights activist
Stokely Carmichael
Stokely Carmichael
West Indian-American activist
Rubye Robinson
American civil rights activist
Allard K. Lowenstein
American scholar, political activist, and diplomat
James Farmer
James Farmer
American civil rights activist