Freedom Ride

See also: freedom ride

English

Noun

Freedom Ride (plural Freedom Rides)

1. Alternative letter-case form of freedom ride
   • 1961, Diane Nash, “Inside the Sit-ins and Freedom Rides: Testimony of a Southern Student”, in Mathew H. Ahmann, editor, The New Negro, New York, N.Y.: Biblo and Tannen, published 1969, →OCLC, page 58:

     It is a slight miracle, I think, that in the almost two years since February of 1960 there has not been a fatality. But we have come amazingly close to it several times. Let me mention the case of William Barbee who was on the Freedom Ride when it arrived at Montgomery and met with mob violence. […]

   • 1961 (year of quotation), Rachel Tisdale, quoting James Zwerg, “The Nation Takes Notice”, in The Freedom Riders (We Shall Overcome), New York, N.Y.: Rosen Publishing Group, published 2014, →ISBN, page 20:

     Segregation must be stopped. It must be broken down. Those of us on the Freedom Ride will continue. No matter what happens we are dedicated to this. We will take the beatings. We are willing to accept death. We are going to keep coming until we can ride anywhere in the South.

   • 1972, James Forman, “Lucretia Collins: ‘The Spirit of Nashville’”, in The Making of Black Revolutionaries, illustrated edition, Seattle, Wash., London: University of Washington Press, published 2000, →ISBN, book 1 (A Constant Struggle), page 146:

     The Freedom Rides had reached their peak in June but were not over, and the ferment stirred up by them had by no means subsided. [...] It was the Nashville Student Movement that had continued the Freedom Rides when CORE [Congress of Racial Equality], the original sponsor, had declared them too dangerous and had withdrawn. These students had a right to feel proud and sure of themselves.

   • 1997, “Contributors”, in Wayne Hudson, Geoffrey Bolton, editors, Creating Australia: Changing Australian History, St. Leonards, N.S.W.: Allen & Unwin, →ISBN, page vii:

     Ann Curthoys is Professor of History at the Australian National University, Canberra. She has written widely on questions of gender, race and ethnicity in Australian history, and is currently working on a history of the Freedom Ride of 1965.