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Freedom Riders traveled deep into the South in 1961. Klansmen beat them, then set their bus on fire.

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The Freedom Ride movement almost ended in Alabama on May 14, 1961, when a group of Riders nearly died on a bus set ablaze by Klansmen.

     
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