CORE Route 40 Freedom Ride pamphlet

ID: 29 ~ Source: Window on Cecil County's Past: "Freedom Riders Arrive on Route 40 in Northeastern MD as CORE Works to Integrate Ropute 40"   ~ Creator: the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) ~ Date: December, 1961
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CORE Route 40 Freedom Ride pamphlet

The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) developed and shared this pamphlet with Route 40 Freedom Riders in 1961 (Maryland/Delaware). It provided instructions for civil protests of segregated restaurants, and lists of both segregated and desegregated restaurants.

This file appears in: Route 40 Freedom Ride

By James Karmel
Usually when Americans remember the Freedom Rides, they think of buses that traversed the deep South in the early 1960s to protest racism at bus depots and lunch counters and the like. The Freedom Riders' demonstrated that, in many southern states,…