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Noun: freedom rider  'free-dum 'rI-du(r)
  1. One of an interracial group of civil rights activists who rode buses through parts of the South in order to protest racial segregation

Derived forms: freedom riders

Type of: civil rights activist, civil rights leader, civil rights worker

Encyclopedia: Freedom rider

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