Agents of Change - The 1960s/1970s Key Events Freedom Riders A group of white people set the Freedom Rider's bus on fire, which forced them to leave the bus due to the smoke and flames. In order to grasp the nation’s attention in the South about the South’s refusal to integrate bus terminals, teams known as the Freedom Riders traveled down South and rode in interstate buses. The violence that Freedom Riders received made national headlines. Brown v. Board of Education After a case where an American girl named Linda Brown was denied admission to her neighborhood school due to race, the Supreme Court ruled in the Brown v. Board of Education of Tokepa, Kansas that segregation was unconstitutional and violated a clause in the Fourteenth Amendment. Free Speech Movement (Berkeley) Berkely students protested at the University of California Berkely to challenge the ban of on-campus political activity. Students desired to use their freedom of speech. Th...