Route 40 Freedom Ride Imminent
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This Baltimore Afro-American article previews the upcoming Freedom Ride for Route 40 on December 16, 1961. It discusses the Baltimore-based planning taking place for the event, plus various actions that happened in recent weeks to desegregate regional businesses such as in Annapolis, Maryland.
This file appears in: Route 40 Freedom Ride
Route 40 Freedom Ride
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,…