The Freedom Movement (CORE, SDS, SNCC)
In 1961, CORE National Director James Farmer organized an attempt to integrate bus stations and interstate buses into the Deep South with the Freedom Rides series. Freedom Riders were groups of black and white civil rights advocates traveling by bus to challenge segregation in interstate traffic in the southern states. The first Freedom Riders left Washington, DC, on two buses that went to the states of the South. Freedom Riders

