Question

The purpose of Freedom Rides was to _____.

A: Go to different Southern cities to see which ones enforced desegregated workplaces

B: Force cities in the South to enforce desegregation laws in regards to public schools

C: See if a mandate outlawing segregated interstate bus facilities was being enforced

D: Offer a way for protesters to go from place to place without having to pay a fare

Answer 1

The answer is C. They wanted to make sure the interstate buses were desegregated.

Answer 2

The correct answer is C.

Freedom Rides were performed during the Civil Rights Movement and started in 1961, in the route Washington D.C.-New Orleans. Activists organized themselves to use interstate buses that communicated different Southern cities, in order to check whether segregation had been abolished or not in public transport interstate facilities, as the US Supreme Court decisions Morgan v. Virginia (1946) and Boynton v. Virginia (1960) had stated.

They could see in person how Southern states had ignored those decisions and how segregation continued ocurring.