Freedom Riders March on Route 40

ID: 71 ~ Source: Baltimore Sun ~ Date: December 16, 1961
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Freedom Riders March on Route 40

This is the Baltimore Sun headline and first two paragraphs reporting on the Route 40 Freedom Ride in December, 1961.

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,…