Representative John Lewis was among the 13 original Freedom Riders, who encountered violence ... created a “Journey of Reconciliation” to draw attention to racial segregation in public ...

Activists from the 1961 Freedom Rides boarded buses again this weekend ... CORNISH: Student activist Corey Ponder(ph), a Vanderbilt senior, does draw this lesson. Mr. COREY PONDER (Senior ...

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 ...

Freedom Riders — black and white students who were ... On May 29, 1961, Robert Kennedy petitioned the Interstate Commerce Commission to draw up national rules that guaranteed “the unquestioned ...

Legendary civil rights leader Bayard Rustin and three other men who were sentenced to work on a chain gang in North Carolina after they launched the first of the “freedom rides” to challenge ...