freedom rider

Noun

Meaning

one of an interracial group of civil rights activists who rode buses through parts of the South in order to protest racial segregation

Source: WordNet

Hypernyms

civil rights activist civil rights leader civil rights worker

Examples

He was a Freedom Rider, participating in sit-ins to fight Jim Crow laws and he chaired the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) from 1963 to 1966. Source: Internet

In the weeks before the Williams family boarded the Greyhound bus, the very first Reverse Freedom Rider to come to Hyannis arrived on May 12, 1962. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

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