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FREEDOM RIDER
Pronunciation (US): | (GB): |
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
One of an interracial group of civil rights activists who rode buses through parts of the South in order to protest racial segregation
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Hypernyms ("freedom rider" is a kind of...):
civil rights activist; civil rights leader; civil rights worker (a leader of the political movement dedicated to securing equal opportunity for members of minority groups)