
In 1962, segregationists set up "Reverse Freedom Rides"
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The Reverse Freedom Rods
In 19 62, about 200 black southerners were tricked into boarding busses and simply dropped off in northern cities. If you want to be a friend to the blacks, the segregation has reasoned, then you take them. It was one of the most inhuman things that i have ever seen. The people whose lives were touched by it,. they're still living with the consequences of what happened.
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