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

USA TODAY’s “Seven Days of 1961” explores how sustained acts of resistance can bring about sweeping change. Throughout 1961, activists risked their lives to fight for voting rights and the ...

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 ...

On episode four: The Freedom Ride movement almost ended in Alabama on May 14, 1961, when Hank Thomas and six other Riders nearly died on a bus set on fire in rural Alabama, where the Ku Klux Klan ...

On May 4, a new interactive exhibit — a vintage Greyhound bus — rolled into the Freedom Rides Museum in Montgomery, Alabama. For a decade, the museum has told the stories of the 400-plus men ...

Alabama. 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 ...

and Atlanta. Bombed Bus. “I could tell the difference when we crossed the state line into Alabama.” recalls Negro Freedom Rider Charles Person, 18. “The atmosphere was tense.” Outside ...

On Mother's Day in 1961, a Greyhound bus carrying Freedom Riders was ambushed in Anniston, Alabama. The image of the Greyhound bus in flames was an printed in papers across the United States the ...

A couple of Freedom Riders made the trip back to Alabama this weekend to protest the state's anti-immigration law. The Reverend C.T. Vivian told the Alabama press: "White America has never seen ...

Alabama. 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 ...