About this episode:
As conservative governors try to score political points by depositing busloads and planeloads of migrants in liberal cities, it can seem like an unprecedented exercise in cruelty. But it’s a page ripped from an earlier playbook in U.S. politics, one that was forgotten for decades for a very good reason. Rachel Maddow and Isaac-Davy Aronson revisit the racist Reverse Freedom Rides of the 1960s.
Related material:
Read: Our guest Gabrielle Emanuel’s groundbreaking reporting on the Reverse Freedom Rides.
Watch: NBC News special from 1961
Slideshow: Reverse Freedom Riders
Listen: Our guest Kellie Carter Jackson’s awesome podcast, This Day in Esoteric Political History.
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