freedom rider

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun One of a group of civil rights activists in the early 1960s who rode buses through parts of the southern United States for the purpose of challenging racial segregation.

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• noun politics, public policy In the United States during the 1960s, a civil rights activist who participated in one or more bus trips, known as freedom rides, through parts of the southern U. S. to demonstrate opposition to racial prejudice and segregation.
• noun politics, public policy A participant in one or more of the similar excursions undertaken by protesters in Australia during the 1960s, in opposition to unfair discrimination against Aborigines.

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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