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=[|freedom riders]                   =






=== <span style="background-color: rgb(219, 209, 0);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> <span style="color: rgb(150, 27, 157);">    <span style="background-color: rgb(219, 209, 0);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(150, 27, 157);"> What was the purpose of freedom riders and why were they needed? === ===<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> <span style="color: rgb(150, 27, 157);"> <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(150, 27, 157);"> <span style="color: rgb(150, 27, 157);"> === <span style="color: rgb(255, 113, 0);">
 * ===<span style="background-color: rgb(1, 239, 15);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(150, 27, 157);">blacks were being harassed  <span style="background-color: rgb(1, 239, 15);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(150, 27, 157);">   ===
 * ===<span style="background-color: rgb(1, 239, 15);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(150, 27, 157);">blacks couldn't do certain things that whites could  ===
 * ===<span style="background-color: rgb(1, 239, 15);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(150, 27, 157);">blacks had to give up seat for whites  ===
 * ===<span style="background-color: rgb(1, 239, 15);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(150, 27, 157);">many blacks were getting beat and killed by the Ku Klux Klan(KKK)  ===
 * ===<span style="background-color: rgb(1, 239, 15);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(150, 27, 157);">freedom riders were people that were going to protest and change the rights for blacks  ===
 * ===<span style="background-color: rgb(1, 239, 15);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(150, 27, 157);">they were both whites and blacks together on buses  ===

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 * ===<span style="color: rgb(255, 113, 0);">freedom riders started off in Washington, D.C. ===
 * ===<span style="color: rgb(255, 113, 0);">they rode on two buses ===
 * ===<span style="color: rgb(255, 113, 0);">on the buses they had 6 whites and 7 blacks together ===
 * ===<span style="color: rgb(255, 113, 0);">with them they had posters and many other things to protest ===
 * ===<span style="color: rgb(255, 113, 0);">they planned to ride to all southern states that were racist ===

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 * ===<span style="color: rgb(20, 28, 210);">there buses weren't riding right and when they got out to see whats wrong they saw that the tires had been slit when they went to get something to eat ===
 * ===<span style="color: rgb(20, 28, 210);">while trying to fix the tires the kkk started coming towards them and beat them ===
 * ===<span style="color: rgb(20, 28, 210);">while beating them the kkk put gas all in the buses and lit them on fire ===
 * ===<span style="color: rgb(20, 28, 210);">cops came to the seen and instead of arresting the kkk, they arrested the freedom riders ===