Obstacles To The Freedom Rider's Dream

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Many individuals worked hard in order to pursue the dream of equal rights in America and they fought for their rights by showing courage and determination to reach their equal because its every human right to have equal rights to everybody else no matter what color skin they have or religion or ethnic group they are. One of the many reasons reaching these rights was hard was because white people didn’t want African Americans and other ethnic groups to be as equal as them and they were afraid of change ,but the freedom riders challenged all the problems and started a movement that was a spark for many other movements and they overcome all the obstacles and succeeded to make equal rights a dream comes true. Although, a male at freedom riders

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