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When Southern Segregationists Gave Black Residents One-Way Bus Tickets North
Time via Yahoo News· 3 months agoA Greyhound bus used by Freedom Riders in 1961 Credit - Bettmann Archive/Getting Images In the...
GOP governors migrant relocation efforts mirror 'Reverse Freedom Rides' used by southern...
INSIDER via Yahoo News· 2 years agoVolunteers mingle outside of St. Andrews Episcopal Church. Two planes of migrants from Venezuela...
Reverse Freedom Riders: Cape Cod migrant crisis evokes 50-year-old memories of similar ploy
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 2 years agoHYANNIS, Mass. — It was 2 a.m. in 1962 and Doloras DaLuz, 88, along with her late husband Joseph...
Litman: Texas' defiance of federal rule echoes Southern segregationists — with a key difference
LA Times via Yahoo News· 5 months agoTexas Gov. Greg Abbott's standoff with the Border Patrol is lawless and dangerous. In contrast to...
Mark Lane: The year Jimmy Carter shook up Florida politics
Daytona Beach News-Journal via Yahoo News· 1 year agoAs close-of-life appreciations are being written for Jimmy Carter, it's worth remembering how his...
A Lesson From the Past for Ron DeSantis
Politico via Yahoo News· 2 years agoIn the 1960s, Southern organizations tried sending African Americans to Northern states in a “cheap” PR stunt designed to embarrass and expose Northern...
Joy Reid Compares Ron DeSantis’ Immigrant Flights to 1960s Segregationists’ ‘Reverse Freedom Rides’...
The Wrap via Yahoo News· 2 years agoMSNBC’s Joy Reid became the latest TV talk-show host Friday to take on Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and...
Preying on white fears worked for Georgia’s Lester Maddox in the ’60s − and is working there for...
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 3 weeks agoArdent segregationist Lester Maddox became governor of Georgia after earning the admiration of white...
Ron DeSantis and Greg Abbott pull from segregationists' playbook with their anti-immigration stunts
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 2 years agoAn undocumented immigrant from Venezuela kisses the forehead of another immigrant on the island of...
Racists bused Black mothers with many children to Cape Cod decades ago. Sound familiar?
TheGrio via Yahoo News· 2 years agoFor some Black families used as pawns in a political ruse by White segregationists many decades ago,...
