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On 4 May 1961, the freedom riders left Washington, D.C., in two buses and headed to New Orleans. Although they faced resistance and arrests in Virginia, it was not until the riders arrived in Rockhill, South Carolina, that they encountered violence.
freedom ride In the United States during the 1960s, any one of a number of bus trips through parts of the southern United States, made by groups of civil rights activists demonstrating their opposition to racial prejudice and segregation.