LAKELAND — Tampa native, the Rev. Bernard LaFayette Jr., came face-to-face with an attacking mob of Ku Klux Klan members in the summer of 1961 as he and a group of other students rode a bus to ...

The film, "Freedom Riders," recounts the 1961 crusade by daring ... Most of the riders were college students coached in the art of nonviolent protest by veteran activists, including the Rev ...

The mug shots for John Robert Lewis, the future Congressman, taken after his May 24, 1961 arrest for his involvement in the Freedom Riders protest. A collection of Freedom Rider mug shots is part ...

Fort Gansevoort has announced that Three Marys: Freedom Riders by Dawn Williams Boyd has been acquired by the Birmingham Museum of Art. This mixed media cloth painting is part of Boyd's Three ...

In recognition of these activists’ courage and commitment, the San Diego African American Museum of Fine Art (SDAAMFA ... arrest “mug shots” of the Freedom Riders from more than 60 years ...

Credit: Art Rickerby/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images ... Americans still lacking basic freedoms and civil rights. The Freedom Rides did not come at a convenient time for the administration.