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発音

A Greyhound bus used during the Freedom Rides of 1961 in the United States (sense 1) which was attacked by white protesters in Alabama.^{[n 1]}

A bus used by the Student Action for Aborigines group for the freedom ride (sense 2) in Australia in February 1965

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ˈfɹiːdəm ˌɹaɪd/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈfɹidəm ˌɹaɪd/
• ハイフネーション: free‧dom ride

名詞

freedom ride (複数形 freedom rides)

1. (US, politics, historical) In the United States in 1961, any one of a number of trips taken by bus or other forms of transport through parts of the southern U.S., made by groups of civil rights activists demonstrating their opposition to racial prejudice and segregation. [from 1961]
   • 1961 May 23, “‘Freedom ride’ must continue—Rev. King”, in Sarasota Journal, volume 10, number 27, Sarasota, Fla.: Lindsay Newspapers, OCLC 17887252, page 2, column 7:

     A Negro leader said today the "freedom riders" whose arrival here touched off race riots last Saturday will continue their test of Southern bus station segregation barriers. [...] [T]he Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. [...] told a news conference the group met for four hours last night and decided that "the freedom ride must continue, we will not specify the exact time, but it will continue."

2. (Australia, politics, historical, by extension) A similar excursion undertaken by protesters in Australia in 1965 in opposition to unfair discrimination against Indigenous Australians.

派生語

• freedom rider

関連する語

• freedom march

参考

• desegregation
• Jim Crow
• racial integration
• sit-in

Notes

Further reading

• Freedom Riders on Wikipedia.
• Freedom Ride (Australia) on Wikipedia.
• “freedom ride, n.” under “freedom, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, June 2008.
• “freedom ride, n.” in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press.
• freedom ride at OneLook Dictionary Search