(Filed along with Schutzer’s Pilgrimage photos in LIFE’s archives are ... five decades after the Freedom Riders put their lives on the line for dignity and equal rights, and on the 50th ...

At the Treme Community Center where Jerome Smith still has a presence as a mentor to young people, photos of the Freedom Riders from New Orleans line the wall. Most are deceased. “The first one ...

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

The trio, ages 11, 12 and 17, examined the photos of Black travelers waiting outside the station. They took in the images of Freedom Riders like John Lewis, a future congressman, in blood ...

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 ...

Roc Freedom Riders' announced its new plan as a non-profit organization through community activism - the group will further its mission in three key areas: healthy living, racial equality ...

Legendary civil rights leader Bayard Rustin and three other men who were sentenced to work on a chain gang in North Carolina after they launched the first of the “freedom rides” to challenge ...

As the riders attempted to board the bus in Chapel Hill, several of them were removed by force and attacked by a group of angry cab drivers. Four of the so-called Freedom Riders — Andrew Johnson ...

“(The musical) Beginning in 1961 with the character Julius who decides to join the Freedom Riders, and travels all the way in time to 1992 when his son, his grandson, rather, is at college ...

Herbert Young, famously known for driving the bus that escorted the Freedom Riders from protests in Montgomery, AL, has passed away at 86. The Freedoms Riders consisted of groups of Black and ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Faith leaders across Jacksonville participated in the Freedom Riders tour Friday night. It's a campaign to commemorate the Civil Rights movement and express the importance ...