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

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

2023 marks the 60th anniversary of the Birmingham Campaign ... A replica of a Freedom Riders bus, an interactive experience of a segregated city in the 1950s, and the actual jail cell door ...

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 ...

After violence against the Riders took place in both Anniston and Birmingham, Alabama, Attorney General Robert Kennedy sent his assistant, John Seigenthaler, to escort the Freedom Riders and ...

Terri Sewell, D-Birmingham, issued a statement Wednesday after the U.S. General Services Administration confirmed that the historic Montgomery Bus Station, home to the Freedom Riders Museum ...

(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 ...