freedom ride English

Meaning freedom ride meaning

What does freedom ride mean?

freedom ride noun

— (US, politics, historical) In the United States in the 1960s (chiefly 1961), any one of a number of trips taken by bus or other forms of transport through parts of the southern U.S., made by groups of civil rights activists demonstrating their opposition to racial prejudice and segregation. [from 1961]

— similar excursion undertaken in Australia in opposition to unfair discrimination against Indigenous Australians