This month, as Freedom Riders across the country celebrate the 50th anniversary of their activism, Diamond and other D.C. residents reflected on the movement and the special place the city holds ...

The Freedom Rides movement challenged segregated transit laws in the South in 1961. These are the stories of the 13 who started it all. Hotspots ranked Start the day smarter ☀️ Funniest cap ...

Theresa Ann Walker, widow of Wyatt Tee Walker, is shown in this mug shot when she was arrested as a Freedom Rider in Jackson, Miss., in 1961. (Mississippi Department of Archives and History) ...

But instead of ending the effort, the violence spurred a Freedom Ride movement that would span the rest of the year and include a total of 436 riders, most of them students, on 60 more train and ...

Freedom Riders focuses on the two best-known strands of the Freedom Rides: the original Washington, D.C.-to-New Orleans ride that was interrupted by violence in Anniston, Ala., and Birmingham, Ala ...

Remembering the impact that the civil rights activists who traveled by bus across the South had in 1961. On their Freedom Rides they set out to protest against Jim Crow laws that were still being ...

That movement was only moderately successful, but it led to the Freedom Rides of 1961, which forever changed the way Americans traveled between states. Image Freedom Riders at a bus station in ...

The Freedom Riders movement, full of blood, tears and racism sparked justice in America. How did it influence the protests we see in the country today?

Meet the movement leaders featured in Freedom Riders. Diane Nash, Chicago, IL. By 1961, Diane Nash had emerged as one of the most respected student leaders of the sit-in movement in Nashville, TN.

Like other women Freedom Riders, she was separated from the men once taken to prison and kept in a cell with women she didn’t know who weren’t part of the movement.

The Movement: A Short Film from Freedom Riders. Clip: Season 23 Episode 11 | 4m 8s. The Freedom Riders represented a cross-section of America - black and white, young and old, religious and secular.

One of the original Freedom Riders has died. Rabbi Israel Dresner was arrested and jailed multiple times for his activism. He was among those who answered Martin Luther King Jr.'s call.