English Dictionary

freedom rider

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈfɹiːdəm ˌɹaɪdə/

名詞

アメリカ英語 歴史的 オーストラリア英語 広義

(US, politics, historical) In the United States during 1961, a civil rights activist who participated in one or more trips by bus or other forms of transport, known as freedom rides, through parts of the southern U.S. to demonstrate opposition to racial prejudice and segregation.

日本語の意味

1961年頃のアメリカにおいて、人種差別と隔離に反対するため、バスや他の交通手段で南部を巡回する「フリーダムライド」に参加した公民権運動の活動家

The young freedom rider recounted the terrifying bus route through the Deep South to a group of students.

1961年に行われた、アメリカ南部をバスで巡って人種差別と隔離に抗議する行動に参加した若い公民権運動家は、南部を通る恐ろしいバスの旅を学生たちに語った。

意味（1）

(US, politics, historical) In the United States during 1961, a civil rights activist who participated in one or more trips by bus or other forms of transport, known as freedom rides, through parts of the southern U.S. to demonstrate opposition to racial prejudice and segregation.

A Negro leader said today the freedom riders whose arrival here touched off race riots last Saturday will continue their test of Southern bus station segregation barriers. … [T]he Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. … told a news conference the group met for four hours last night and decided that the freedom ride must continue, we will not specify the exact time, but it will continue.

意味（2）

(Australia, politics, historical, by extension) A participant in a similar excursion undertaken by protesters in Australia in 1965 in opposition to unfair discrimination against Indigenous Australians.

freedom riders （ plural ）