Greyhound Bus Station (1950-60), 1100 New York Avenue NW, where Freedom Riders launched their "test ride" on May 4, 1961,

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Greyhound Bus Station (1950-60), 1100 New York Avenue NW, where Freedom Riders launched their "test ride" on May 4, 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…