James Farmer was a co-founder of CORE, the Congress On Racial Equality, where he was national director from 1961-1966. In the 1960s, CORE helped organize the Freedom Rides movement against Jim ...

CORE initiated the Freedom Rides to test a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that declared segregation in interstate bus and rail stations unconstitutional. From left are Charles Person, ...

Meet the Freedom Riders. Part of the original May 4 CORE Freedom Ride, the Rev. Benjamin Elton Cox was an outspoken black minister based in High Point, NC who had traveled through the region ...

The Freedom Rides movement challenged segregated transit laws in the South in 1961. ... After meeting with James Farmer, director of CORE, he was asked to become a Freedom Rider.

— Freedom Rider Jim Zwerg, as told to the Freedom Riders Museum. In May 1961 the Congress on Racial Equality (CORE) set out ...

The Freedom Rides, which began in May 1961 and ended late that year, were organized by CORE’s national director, James Farmer. The mission of the rides was to test compliance with two Supreme ...

60 years ago, in May 1961, CORE launched the Freedom Rides, Black and white activists traveling by Greyhound or Trailways buses across the South to challenge segregation on buses and in bus stations ...

The Freedom Riders, a group consisting of both Black and white civil rights activists — and "none of them older than 22," according to the Freedom Rides Museum website — participated in bus ...

Freedom Riders Rep. John Lewis, left, and Matthew Walker, right, chat as they tour the Freedom Rides Museum in downtown Montgomery, Ala. following the opening ceremony for the museum on Friday May ...

Freedom Riders faced a mob at this bus station. DOGE wanted to sell it. The landmark site in Montgomery, Alabama, was deemed “not core to government operations,” and other stops in U.S. civil ...

Meet the Freedom Riders. Part of the original May 4 CORE Freedom Ride, the Rev. Benjamin Elton Cox was an outspoken black minister based in High Point, NC who had traveled through the region ...