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QUEENS (NYC) NY: The Freedom Riders risked life and limb protesting illegal and often violent racial segregation throughout the South.
Freedom Riders were an intensely diverse group of protesters, Black, white, young, old, Christian and Jewish, that ended up arrested and viciously beaten by racist mobs on their historic bus rides in the South.
The national attention the riders drew became yet another major linchpin in the movement for civil rights.
The event was co-sponsored by SCAN-Harbor, Queens College, Queens Jewish Community Council, NAACP Jamaica Branch, and the Brandeis Association.
