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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Freedom Rider George Blevins, now 71 and a library technician at the Gilpin County Public Library in Black Hawk, said the movement’s timing was perfect. “It embarrassed the Kennedys,” said ...

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 ...

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 ...

Part of the May 28 wave of Freedom Riders from the Nashville Student Movement, Pauline Knight-Ofusu escaped the violence of the earlier rides. Pauline Knight was a 20-year-old Tennessee State ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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?

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) ...