The Martha's Vineyard migrant flight has echoes of a dark past: Reverse Freedom Rides

Many people have heard of the Freedom Rides of 1961, when civil rights activists rode buses through the South to protest segregation. But most people have never heard of what happened the very next summer, when Southern segregationists decided to strike back.

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