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Re:It Takes More Than Mass Protests to Drive Change by perfunctory on Monday August 12, 2019 @09:35AM (#20675244)
> worked within the system of laws and public behavioral mores

Would you say that freedom riders operated within the system of laws or public behavioral mores? If I am not mistaken, breaking the segregation laws was their whole point. And the reaction they received from the white mobs doesn't suggest they operated within social norms either. Or do we have different definition of "working within the system"?

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Re:It Takes More Than Mass Protests to Drive Change by sokoloff on Monday August 12, 2019 @09:44AM (#20675301)
Disclaimer: the sum total knowledge of the freedom riders that I have is from reading the wikipedia page on them just now, so I don't hold myself out as any kind of expert here.

Because you asked for my opinion, yes, I do consider their actions as working with the system of laws (obviously) and public mores.

I believe they had federal law on their side and were seeking to make the changes in real life that the law demanded. In that regard, they were working even more within the system than Rosa Parks.

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