Freedom riders of 2003.Evoking the 1961 Civil Rights Freedom Rides, hundreds of immigrants and their allies boarded buses and traveled the country to drum up support for immigrant rights. On their travels, they visited more than eighty cities and called for the protections of civil liberties and workers' rights for everyone. The 2003 Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride held a rally in Washington Washington, town, England Washington, town (1991 pop. 48,856), Sunderland metropolitan district, NE England. Washington was designated one of the new towns in 1964 to alleviate overpopulation in the Tyneside-Wearside area. , D.C., on October October: see month. 1, followed by a day of meetings with Congressional representatives. The freedom riders freedom rider n. One of an interracial 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. ended their trek with a rally and festival in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. on Saturday, October 4. Freedom Riders stand up for immigrant rights in Detroit on September 27. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] For more information, contact the Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride, www.iwfr.org. |
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