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Civil rights activists traveled through the south on buses to protest segregation in seating on buses and in depots. these efforts were generally called

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They were called freedom rides, because they were fighting for their freedom that way. It was a way to fight oppression in the south. Another similar way to do this was when they had sit-in where they would go to coffee shops and order things and the restaurants were known for not serving African-Americans.
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