Freedom Riders were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States in 1961 and subsequent years 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 public buses
This prompt is describing a Progressive author. These writers, referred to as "muckrakers," wrote extensively about the darker side of urban life in hopes of drawing attention- both from citizens and elected officials- to the conditions that create such misery.
