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noun
In the United States during 1961, a civil rights activist who participated in one or more trips by bus or other forms of transport, known as freedom rides, through parts of the southern U.S. to demonstrate opposition to racial prejudice and segregation.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US, historical
Topics: government, politics
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noun
A participant in a similar excursion undertaken by protesters in Australia in 1965 in opposition to unfair discrimination against Indigenous Australians.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Australia, broadly, historical
Topics: government, politics
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noun
one of an interracial group of civil rights activists who rode buses through parts of the South in order to protest racial segregation
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: civil rights leader, civil rights worker, civil rights activist
History
From freedom ride + -er.
