freedom rider (English, noun)
expansion: freedom rider (plural freedom riders)
Senses:
topics: government
politics
glosses: In the United States during 1961, a civil rights activist who participated in one or more trips by bus or other forms of transport, known as freedom rides, through parts of the southern U.S. to demonstrate opposition to racial prejudice and segregation.
tags: US
historical
topics: government
politics
glosses: A participant in a similar excursion undertaken by protesters in Australia in 1965 in opposition to unfair discrimination against Indigenous Australians.
tags: Australia
broadly
historical
Forms:
form: freedom riders
tags: plural