What was the goal of the freedom rides?

Answer 1

The Freedom Riders's goal was to challenge the Jim Crow laws of the South. The original movement began with a group of 40 individuals who boarded buses in Washington DC. They planned to travel throughout the South, eventually ending up in New Orleans. They were stopped and met with resistance in Alabama.

Answer 2

In 1961 James Farmer, the leader of CORE, asked groups of African Americans and white Americans to travel into the South to draw attention to the South's segregation of bus terminals.

Answer 3

the Australian freedom ride was about standing up for aborignal rights

Answer 4

The freedom riders were people who worked to get African American's registered to vote. Their goal was getting people registered and to the polls.

Answer 5

desegregation of buses and bus terminals