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How did the freedom riders advance the cause of civil rights?
a. they forced the supreme court to reconsider its "separate but equal" ruling.
b. they drew attention to the resistance to desegregation in the south.
c. they led states to take action to end discrimination.
d. they led to passage of the voting rights act.
e. they led to passage of a new civil rights amendment?

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Freedom Riders were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States, in 1961 and subsequent years, in order to challenge the non-enforcement of the United States Supreme Court decisions Morgan v. Virginia (1946) and Boynton v. Virginia (1960), which ruled that segregated ...