freedom rider

1. 1.

   one of an interracial group of civil rights activists who rode buses through parts of the South in order to protest racial segregation

   Broadercivil rights leader

Questions about freedom rider

What does freedom rider mean?

freedom rider means "one of an interracial group of civil rights activists who rode buses through parts of the South in order to protest racial segregation".

Is freedom rider a common word?

freedom rider is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.