Freedom Riders plan their trip from DC to southern states, early May 1961.

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Freedom Riders plan their trip from DC to southern states, early May 1961.
This file appears in: Civil Rights Tour: Protest - Freedom Riders

The trip, organized by the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), was planned to test individual states’ compliance with the 1960 U.S. Supreme Court decision in Boynton v. Virginia that prohibited segregation in bus terminals and restaurants serving…