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Signs and Waves of Freedom Riders Reach Jackson
An Associated Press account by Hugh Mulligan follows a mixed white and Negro CORE group as they travel from Washington to New Orleans in mid May to test segregation. The piece notes nonviolent aims, involvement of clergy and students, earlier sit ins, and the escalating federal response and tense atmosphere in the Deep South.
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Freedom Riders
South
Associated Press
Hugh Mulligan
Jackson
Miss
Hugh A. Mulligan Jackson
Red Heart of Dixie
Montgomery
Ala
Band of
Deep South
U.S. Supreme Court
United States
Little Rock
New Orleans
Congress of Racial Equality
Washington, D. C
Nes
Yale
Wesleyan University
Core’s
Virginia
North Carolina