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Long Ride to Freedom
Offensive language has been bleeped since this audio was originally broadcast.
The Freedom Riders of 1961 rode public buses into the American South to protest peacefully for equality. These are some of their stories.
Image: Freedom Bus
Credit: William Lovelace/Express/Getty Images
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