English Dictionary

freedom ride

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈfɹiːdəm ˌɹaɪd/

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 in the 1960s (chiefly 1961), any one of a number of trips taken by bus or other forms of transport through parts of the southern U.S., made by groups of civil rights activists demonstrating their opposition to racial prejudice and segregation.

日本語の意味

1960年代のアメリカ南部で、バスなどを利用して市民権運動の活動家たちが、差別や人種隔離に抗議するために行った一連の移動（または旅行）

She read a powerful biography about a young activist who joined a freedom ride through the Deep South in 1961.

彼女は1961年にアメリカ南部を巡る、公民権運動のバス旅行に参加した若い活動家についての感動的な伝記を読んだ。

意味（1）

(US, politics, historical) In the United States in the 1960s (chiefly 1961), any one of a number of trips taken by bus or other forms of transport through parts of the southern U.S., made by groups of civil rights activists demonstrating their opposition to racial prejudice and segregation.

It is a slight miracle, I think, that in the almost two years since February of 1960 there has not been a fatality. But we have come amazingly close to it several times. Let me mention the case of William Barbee who was on the Freedom Ride when it arrived at Montgomery and met with mob violence.[…]

意味（2）

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

The year of the first Aboriginal freedom ride is the year the principal of Fineflour Central boards up a group of kids in the toilet block roof.

freedom rides （ plural ）