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Definition of freedom rider in English: freedom ridernoun US A person who challenged racial laws in the American South during in the 1960s, originally by refusing to abide by the laws governing the segregation of seating in buses. 〈美〉自由乘车运动参加者（20世纪60年代挑战美国南方种族歧视法律的人，最初的做法是拒绝服从规定乘坐公交车时实行种族隔离的法律） Example sentencesExamples - A week after leaving Washington, D.C., the original freedom riders were met right outside Anniston, Alabama, by a violent mob of over a hundred white people determined to stop them.
- It was fitting that one of our last stops on the ride featured the comments of Congressman Lewis, one of the original freedom riders.
- When I think of ‘the tumultuous '60s,’ I don't see peace signs and freedom riders; I see crowds: rallies and rock festivals and that epitome of way-too-crowded-for-me known as communal living.
- They're meeting some of the old freedom riders, Lewis himself was one, who integrated inter-city bus travel.
- He was jailed as a freedom rider, arrested as a war protester and, at the United Nations headquarters in New York, as a hunger striker against nuclear weapons.
- Founded in 1867, the church served as headquarters for African Americans and all freedom riders during the Civil Rights Movement.
- Thus, in 1971 the Court permitted suit against private persons who attempted to keep civil rights workers and freedom riders from entering Mississippi.
- And they're modeling their action after the freedom riders from the civil rights movement.
- With a renewed sense of faith and purpose, the freedom riders continued, escorted by national guardsmen.
- But an awful lot of people did not know that he risked both political life as well as physical life as a freedom rider.
Definition of freedom rider in US English: freedom ridernoun US A person who challenged racial laws in the American South in the 1960s, originally by refusing to abide by the laws designating that seating in buses be segregated by race. 〈美〉自由乘车运动参加者（20世纪60年代挑战美国南方种族歧视法律的人，最初的做法是拒绝服从规定乘坐公交车时实行种族隔离的法律） Example sentencesExamples - It was fitting that one of our last stops on the ride featured the comments of Congressman Lewis, one of the original freedom riders.
- Thus, in 1971 the Court permitted suit against private persons who attempted to keep civil rights workers and freedom riders from entering Mississippi.
- And they're modeling their action after the freedom riders from the civil rights movement.
- A week after leaving Washington, D.C., the original freedom riders were met right outside Anniston, Alabama, by a violent mob of over a hundred white people determined to stop them.
- But an awful lot of people did not know that he risked both political life as well as physical life as a freedom rider.
- When I think of ‘the tumultuous '60s,’ I don't see peace signs and freedom riders; I see crowds: rallies and rock festivals and that epitome of way-too-crowded-for-me known as communal living.
- They're meeting some of the old freedom riders, Lewis himself was one, who integrated inter-city bus travel.
- With a renewed sense of faith and purpose, the freedom riders continued, escorted by national guardsmen.
- Founded in 1867, the church served as headquarters for African Americans and all freedom riders during the Civil Rights Movement.
- He was jailed as a freedom rider, arrested as a war protester and, at the United Nations headquarters in New York, as a hunger striker against nuclear weapons.
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