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On May 4, 1961, two buses set out from Washington, D.C. A group of black and white people rode on each bus. The U.S. Supreme Court had ruled in 1960 that laws requiring segregated bus and train terminals were unconstitutional, but most terminals throughout the South remained segregated. The two interracial groups planned to challenge the states' refusal to desegregate their facilities by riding the buses through southern states all the way to New Orleans, Louisiana. They were the Freedom Riders.