What they encountered along the way showed just how prevalent segregation and injustice existed in Australia. The trip would prove to be a turning point in the Australian civil rights movement.

One group, The Congress of Racial Equality, would tackle segregation head on with its bold series of freedom rides in 1961. We had these mixed groups of black and white activists were traveling ...

The segregation and disenfranchisement laws ... was humiliating," recalled Diane Nash in her interview for Freedom Riders. "The very fact that there were separate facilities was to say to ...

Person was only 18 when he joined. In 1961, the Freedom Riders challenged racial segregation in the deep South by riding interstate buses into segregated areas. The original group consisted of 13 ...

The Freedom Rides began on May 4, 1961, and continued throughout the year. They eventually included hundreds of young activists who targeted bus segregation, which recent Supreme Court decisions ...

In 1946, and again in 1960, the US Supreme Court had ruled segregation on interstate ... and the southern states had ignored them. The Freedom Riders’ journey began on May 4 1961 when 18-year ...