The bus passengers assaulted that day were Freedom Riders, among the first of more than 400 volunteers who traveled throughout the South on regularly scheduled buses for seven months in 1961 to ...

reverse freedom ride? north to Dayton, Ohio on tickets given them by George Singelmann, secretary of the Citizens Council of Greater New Orleans, March 22, 1963. A seventh child of the Parkers ...

As Rachel Abrams reports, a new photograph exhibit in Los Angeles looks at some of the civil rights activists, called Freedom Riders, who traveled to the South to end segregation. On May 4 ...

While the Freedom Rides of 1961 are an honored part of the Civil Rights movement, the response of Southern racists is less well-known. The Reverse Freedom Rides sent scores of African Americans north.

Their trip became known as the Freedom Rides. In Freedom Riders, a new documentary that airs this month on PBS, filmmaker Stanley Nelson talks with the people who witnessed the rides, which were ...

Good jobs, housing, etc. are promised.” The ad was meant to retaliate against the Freedom Riders, a group of white and African American civil rights activists who rode around the South in 1961 ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — 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 ...

Representative John Lewis was among the 13 original Freedom Riders, who encountered violence and resistance as they rode buses across the South, challenging the nation’s segregation laws.

On Cincinnati Edition, we’ll learn more about the Freedom Rides, the network of organizers who coordinated the movement and how its legacy inspired civil rights legislation and contemporary ...