The Freedom Riders History. In the spring of 1961, black and white civil rights activists rode buses to protest the segregationist policies of the Deep South (Marian Holmes, Brian Wolly, Photos ...

On May 4, 1961, national CORE launched “Freedom Rides” on a Trailways and Greyhound bus to test segregation on interstate buses and inside terminals after the U.S. Supreme Court outlawed such ...

The UAB Department of History was proud to host two Freedom Riders — Catherine Brooks-Burk and Ameen Rasheed Tuungane — who spoke to students and faculty about how their actions helped change the ...

Letters to the Editor; Freedom Riders who risked their lives to secure Black rights decades ago show what can be achieved. Updated: ; Nov. 11, 2022, 12:23 p.m ...

She says this story is still relevant, even 60 years after the Freedom Riders first came together. “Unfortunately, we can see the ways in which history repeats itself, so I think one thing that ...

Charles Person, the youngest of the 13 original Freedom Riders who traveled from Washington to Birmingham, Ala., in 1961 in an effort to integrate interstate bus terminals across the South — and ...

Herbert Young, who bused Freedom Riders protesting the lack of enforcement of Supreme Court rulings that found segregation unconstitutional before establishing several businesses in Montgomery ...