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 ...

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 ...

Drummer Art Blakey and many other jazz musicians ... Virginia. Hundreds of Freedom Riders, who followed in the brave footsteps of the original 13, were often punished or incarcerated.

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — The Freedom Festival has announced a new event for 2025: Patriotic Fest, set for Saturday, June 28, in the NewBo/Czech Village district. This free, family-friendly event promises ...

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.

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 ...

Freedom Riders, a 2011 film that screens at the San Antonio Museum of Art as part of DreamWeek, shines a light on Nash and many other young, brave blacks and whites who headed into certain danger ...

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 ...

Ask most people today what the Freedom Rides were, and they can't tell you. Or they misunderstand its significance, painting the Freedom Riders as lightweight pacifists who just lay down and ...

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 ...

AT 85, HIS PASSION FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE HASN’T WANED in the 60 years since HE WAS ARRESTED FOR TAKING PART IN THE FREEDOM RIDES IN 1961. GLEASON BECAME AN ORDAINED MINISTER, MOVED TO CHICAGO AND ...