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Anti-Freedom Rider
The civil rights movement expanded dramatically in 1961 with Freedom Riders, both African American and white, who rode side-by-side on buses through the South to encourage racial integration in daily life. The event was largely peaceful until it reached Alabama, where angry mobs beat riders and burned buses. Here, Herblock suggests that racism holds the United States back from being a world power.
Anti-Freedom Rider, 1961. Published in the Washington Post, June 16, 1961. |