Wiktionary
n. 1 (context politics public policy English) In the United States during the 1960s, a civil rights activist who participated in one or more bus trips, known as freedom rides, through parts of the southern U. S. to demonstrate opposition to racial prejudice and segregation. 2 (context politics public policy English) A participant in one or more of the similar excursions undertaken by protesters in Australia during the 1960s, in opposition to unfair discrimination against Aborigines.
WordNet
n. one of an interracial group of civil rights activists who rode buses through parts of the South in order to protest racial segregation
Wikipedia
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Usage examples of "freedom rider".
Back in the Sixties he'd been a freedom rider briefly-it was an up-and-coming New Frontier sort of thing to do, and there was always the hatred, heady as wine, the possibility of lovely violence, crimson and indigo.