Award a Congressional Gold Medal to the Freedom Riders for their contributions to civil rights and desegregation.
The bill awards a Congressional Gold Medal to the Freedom Riders, a group of civil rights activists who challenged segregation in interstate travel during the 1960s. The Freedom Riders, composed of Black and White individuals, rode buses through the segregated South to test the Supreme Court's ruling against segregated bus and rail stations. They faced violence and imprisonment but continued their mission, inspiring a movement for equality.
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