Their trip became known as the Freedom Rides. In Freedom Riders, a new documentary that airs this month on PBS, filmmaker Stanley Nelson talks with the people who witnessed the rides, which were ...

The trip will overlap with a reunion of original Freedom Riders noting the 50th anniversary ... the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, PBS and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

Stripping away the platitudes and feel-good generalizations of so many civil-rights documentaries, Stanley Nelson’s “Freedom Riders” is a superb piece of filmic journalism. As it recounts ...

Barbara Bowie, executive director of the Dr. Bowie Scholarship Foundation, which arranged the event, said there's a need to get the Freedom Riders' story to the public, especially youth.

Freedom Riders National Monument is a new park that ... Buy on REI.com and REI will donate 10% of pass proceeds to the ...

The victory won by the Freedom Riders was decisive and unambiguous, expanding the freedom of African-Americans to travel through the United States. One of 436 Freedom Riders in 1961. Credit ...

Thy also answered questions from the audience. Former Freedom Riders spoke about the Mississippi freedom rides during the Civil Rights Era, their experiences during and since the events of 1961 ...