Freedom Riders

U.S. activists who rode interstate buses in interracial groups to show the continuing prevalence of segregation
Event demonstration Q538790
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Freedom Riders

Summary

Freedom Riders is a demonstration[1]. It ranks in the top 2% of demonstration entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,226 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Freedom Riders's image is recorded as Exhibit on Freedom Riders - Center for Civil and Human Rights - Atlanta - Georgia - USA (33468216774).jpg[3].
  • Freedom Riders's instance of is recorded as demonstration[4].
  • Freedom Riders's instance of is recorded as caravan[5].
  • Freedom Riders's movement is recorded as civil rights movement[6].
  • Freedom Riders's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh2007004875[7].
  • Freedom Riders's subclass of is recorded as civil rights advocate[8].
  • Freedom Riders's Commons category is recorded as Freedom Riders[9].
  • Freedom Riders's start time is recorded as +1961-05-04T00:00:00Z[10].
  • Freedom Riders's end time is recorded as +1961-12-10T00:00:00Z[11].
  • Freedom Riders's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/02bzjj[12].
  • Freedom Riders's organizer is recorded as Congress of Racial Equality[13].
  • Freedom Riders's participant is recorded as Margaret Burr Leonard[14].
  • Freedom Riders's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Freedom Riders[15].
  • Freedom Riders's main subject is recorded as racial segregation in the United States[16].
  • Journey of Reconciliation inspired Freedom Riders[17].
  • Freedom Riders's U.S. National Archives Identifier is recorded as 10638382[18].
  • Freedom Riders's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as event/Freedom-Rides[19].
  • Freedom Riders's plaque image is recorded as Freedom Rider plaque (4653382530).jpg[20].
  • Freedom Riders's uses is recorded as intercity bus service[21].
  • Freedom Riders's uses is recorded as bus[22].
  • Freedom Riders's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Art+Feminism[23].
  • Freedom Riders's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as WikiProject Human rights[24].
  • Freedom Riders's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as WikiProject African diaspora[25].
  • Freedom Riders's BlackPast.org ID is recorded as african-american-history/freedom-rides-1961[26].
  • Freedom Riders's National Library of Israel J9U ID is recorded as 987007530502305171[27].

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Works and Contributions

Things named for Freedom Riders include Freedom Riders National Monument[28], a National Monument of the United States[29], in United States[30], founded in 2017[31].

Why It Matters

Freedom Riders ranks in the top 2% of demonstration entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,226 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 16 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[32] It is known by 4 alternative names across languages and contexts.[33]

Entities named for it include Freedom Riders National Monument[28], a National Monument of the United States[29], in United States[30], founded in 2017[31].

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . github.com. Retrieved . github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . National Library of Israel. wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [28] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [29] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [30] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [31] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [32] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [33] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). Freedom Riders. Retrieved May 3, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/freedom-riders
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