Question
Who were the freedom riders and what type of resistance did they encounter
Answer
The Freedom Riders were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated Southern United States in 1961 to challenge the non-enforcement of the Supreme Court decisions Morgan v. Virginia (1946) and Boynton v. Virginia (1960), which ruled that segregated public buses were unconstitutional. They encountered violent resistance from local law enforcement and white supremacists.