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

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.

Communicating with the dead was common, it wasn’t seen as bizarre or weird,” explains murch. “it’s hard to imagine that now, we look at that and think, ‘why are you opening the gates of hell? ’