BLACK HISTORY SPOTLIGHT: THE FREEDOM RIDERS!

BY: LEON KWASI KUNTUO-ASARE The Freedom Rider were a collective of civil rights activists, who In May 1961, ventured into the deep south, to challenge unconstitutional Jim Crow laws in the southern region of the United States. On 1960 the Supreme Court’s decision in the Boynton vs. Virginia case, ruled that segregated buses were unconstitutional, but the segregated South refused … Continue reading BLACK HISTORY SPOTLIGHT: THE FREEDOM RIDERS!