From the Vault 263: The Freedom Riders\' 50th Anniversary

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PZ0673.263
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This week on From the Vault we celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Freedom Rides that began in May of 1961. The Freedom Rides were an organized effort by Civil Rights activists to ride interstate buses beginning May 4th, 1961 to test two Supreme Court rulings: Boynton vs. Virginia, which prohibited racial segregation in restaurants and waiting rooms of bus terminals that crossed state lines, and Sarah Keys vs. Carolina Coach Company, which outlawed discrimination in interstate bus travel.

We begin with a 1960 conversation between legendary KPFA Public Affairs Director Elsa Knight Thompson and Civil Rights activist James Farmer, one of the co-founders of The Congress of Racial Equality (C.O.R.E.

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Total duration (All reels): 
59
Distributor: 
Los Angeles : Pacifica Radio Archive, 1975.
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