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BumRushDaShow

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8. It's not unlike what was recently brought up with this moving people from place to place
Fri Jul 4, 2025, 04:24 PM
Jul 4
The Cruel Story Behind The 'Reverse Freedom Rides'


February 29, 2020 6:09 AM ET

By Gabrielle Emanuel

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Fuming over the civil rights movement, Southern segregationists had concocted a way to retaliate against Northern liberals. In 1962, they tricked about 200 African Americans from the South into moving north. The idea was simple: When large numbers of African Americans showed up on Northern doorsteps, Northerners would not be able to accommodate them. They would not want them, and their hypocrisy would be exposed.

The Reverse Freedom Rides have largely disappeared from the country's collective memory. The scheme almost never appears in history books and is little-known even in Hyannis, the primary target of the ploy. But some hear echoes of that segregationist past in America's present. And for the families that came to the North based on a lie, the journey has cast an enduring shadow on their lives.

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where in the above example, racist southern segregationists loaded up busses and shipped black people to New England (in some cases, right to the Kennedy compound in Hyanis Port, MA on the Cape). No food/water, no lodging, only lies about "jobs" and other crap they came up with

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