Freedom Riders Pop In Along Route 40
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This Baltimore Afro-American article details the Freedom Ride on December 16, 1961 along Route 40. The article explains how the Freedom Riders accomplished launched sit-ins, resistance they faced from counter-protestors, and the arrest process employed by Maryland law enforcement leading to at least nine arrests.
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,…