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A Mississippi Civil Rights Museum mural of Freedom Riders who were arrested (Carolyn Van Houten/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

11 facts about the Freedom Riders

Mark Mancini - Mental Floss
Martin Luther King Jr., his wife Coretta (right) and John Lewis (far right), lead a march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, March 1965 (AP)

Huckabee Sanders "explains" civil rights

Nicole Karlis
Palestinian freedom riders challenge segregated public transportation in the Israeli-occupied West Bank (Khaled Diab)

Arrests greet Palestinian freedom riders

Khaled Diab