Freedom Highways campaign
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Freedom Highways campaign, or Freedom Highways project, was a 1962 project by Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) to seek racial desegregation of hotels and restaurants located in U.S. states along the southeastern seaboard.[1] After the Freedom Rides campaign during 1961 to integrate interstate and intrastate travel and terminals in the southern United States, the organization sought to apply the same tactic of nonviolence and direct action towards hotels and restaurants from Maryland down to Florida.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Catsam, Derek (2009). Freedom's Main Line: The Journey of Reconciliation and the Freedom Rides. University Press of Kentucky. pp. 310–311. ISBN 9780813173108.
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- African-American history of Washington, D.C.
- African-American history of Florida
- African-American history of Georgia (U.S. state)
- African-American history of Maryland
- African-American history of North Carolina
- African-American history of South Carolina
- African-American history of Virginia
- Freedom Riders
- History of the Southern United States
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