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 ...

Charges against four men who were arrested in 1947 after launching the first of the “freedom rides” to fight Jim Crow Laws have been posthumously dismissed by a North Carolina judge 75 years ...

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 ...