On May 4, 13 CORE and SNCC members embarked on their Freedom Ride through the American South with plans to engage in nonviolent protest and ensure that desegregation in public locales was being ...

(The Root) — The Greyhound Bus Station on South Court Street in downtown Montgomery, Ala., was supposed to be an ordinary stop for freedom riders in May 1961 traveling through the Deep South to ...

The victory won by the Freedom Riders was decisive and unambiguous, expanding the freedom of African-Americans to travel through the United States. One of 436 Freedom Riders in 1961. Credit: Getty ...

WELCOME ABOARD. Part of the Priests for Life team on the Freedom Bus. Clockwise from top right: Father Peter West, associate director; Augustinian Father Denis Wilde, associate director; Dr ...

This year is the 55th anniversary of The Freedom Rides, a pivotal moment in the history of America's Civil Rights Movement and in the transformation of Alabama. The front page of The Birmingham ...

Freedom Train Rides On Published January 18, 2010 • Updated on January 18, 2010 at 2:00 pm The NAACP boycott of the Freedom Train did not appear to deter riders this year.

On the Freedom Ride, I was prepared to die,” he said during a 2011 appearance on The Oprah Winfrey Show. Charles Person (1943- ) Person was born in Atlanta, Georgia, where hatred toward Black ...

The Freedom Rides represented a major evolution in the tactics and strategy of the Civil Rights Movement. Movement leaders at the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), the Southern Christian ...

Freedom Riders — black and white students who were later joined by preachers, housewives and teachers — flowed toward toward Southern cities to challenge still-enforced segregation customs ...

The Freedom Riders walked down the steps into a violent crowd littered with Ku Klux Klan members. Lafayette's then-college roommate, John Lewis, was struck with a Coca-Cola crate. Lafayette, then ...

“Traveling Down Freedom’s Main Line: The Freedom Rides at 50,” part of WBEZ’s Off-Air Event Series, is a celebration of the 50th anniversary of the nonviolent movement by Freedom Riders ...