(CBS News)
CHICAGO – It might be hard for young folks to believe, but there was a time not that long ago that blacks in the South were not allowed to sit in the front of a bus. Blacks and whites could not sit side by side. CBS News correspondent Russ Mitchell reports all that changed with a movement that began 50 years ago today with the first of the Freedom Rides.
Fifty years ago, the Freedom Riders challenged Jim Crow’s travel rules, divided buses, separate waiting depots and
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