There are currently two sites for the Freedom Riders National Monument in Anniston, Alabama that you can visit ... is a Civil ...

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After a mob attacked a bus with protesters in Alabama in ... at bus terminals in Birmingham and Anniston, Alabama. The bus passengers assaulted that day were Freedom Riders, among the first ...

In Freedom Riders, a new documentary that airs ... remained steadfast in their commitment to nonviolence. In Birmingham, for example, Alabama politician Eugene "Bull" Connor ordered police to ...

When the original CORE Freedom Ride stalled in Birmingham, AL, Lawson urged the Nashville Student Movement to continue the Freedom Rides. He conducted workshops on nonviolent resistance while the ...

and a bus driver boycott forced the Freedom Riders to fly to New Orleans. But the news and images of the Alabama attacks, including a single photo from the Birmingham bus station melee that ...

“I just hope this means blacks and whites in Alabama will hate each other no more.” Birmingham Mayor Bernard Kincaid, who is black, greeted the Freedom Riders when they arrived there and said ...

When the buses crossed the Alabama state line, trouble came almost instantly. A white mob surrounded and set one of the Freedom Riders’ buses on fire. In Birmingham and Montgomery, more white ...

(WSFA) - Friday, the Alabama Shakespeare Festival began its ... Beginning in 1961 with the character Julius who decides to join the Freedom Riders, and travels all the way in time to 1992 when ...

Sixty years ago, they boarded buses in search of equality. The 1961 Freedom Rides were inspired by the 1947 Journey for Reconciliation, when members of the Congress of Racial Equality traveled by ...