freedom ride

== English == === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈfɹiːdəm ˌɹaɪd/ (General American) IPA(key): /ˈfɹidəm ˌɹaɪd/ Hyphenation: free‧dom ride === Noun === freedom ride (plural freedom rides) (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] (Australia, politics, historical, by extension) A similar excursion undertaken by protesters in Australia in 1965 in opposition to unfair discrimination against Indigenous Australians. ==== Alternative forms ==== Freedom Ride ==== Derived terms ==== freedom rider ==== Related terms ==== freedom march ==== Translations ==== ==== See also ==== desegregation Jim Crow racial integration sit-in === Notes === === Further reading === Freedom Riders on Wikipedia.Wikipedia Freedom Ride (Australia) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia “freedom ride, n.” under “freedom, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, June 2008. “freedom ride, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022. “freedom ride”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.