Freedom riders, along with Martin Luther King Jr., relax at a safe house in Montgomery, Ala. Paul Schutzer—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images By Ben Cosgrove January 19, 2014 12:04 PM EST ...

Monday will mark the 30th time the Freedom Train has carried people up the Peninsula to San Francisco to commemorate Martin Luther King Jr.'s famous civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery ...

Meet the movement leaders featured in Freedom Riders. Diane Nash, Chicago, IL. By 1961, Diane Nash had emerged as one of the most respected student leaders of the sit-in movement in Nashville, TN.

Activists involved in the civil rights movement in the 1960s, known as Freedom Riders, will be participating in the Martin Luther King Jr. March on Monday in San Antonio.

A slew of events is scheduled in the Bay Area for Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Monday. In the South Bay, at the San Jose Diridon Caltrain Station, the "Freedom Train" will depart at 9:30 a.m ...

Freedom Rides Retracing route of civil rights fight 50 years later ... A statue of the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., in Birmingham's Kelly Ingram Park overlooks the 16th Street Baptist Church, ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WSFA) -It’s been 60 years since freedom riders boarded buses to integrate interstate travel. Saturday, the Freedom Rides Museum is hosting “MLK and the Freedom Rides: A 60th ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Sixty years ago, they boarded buses in search of equality. The 1961 Freedom Rides were inspired by the 1947 Journey for Reconciliation, when members of the Congress of Racial ...

Rabbi Israel "Sy" Dresner was one of the early Freedom Riders in the 1960s civil rights movement and was close with King. He said Jewish teachings and Jewish history compelled his activism.

In Freedom Riders, Burks says she borrowed a line from the Westerns of the day, ... Martin Luther King, Jr. spoke to the striking workers on the day before his assassination.

Martin Luther King Jr. encourages freedom riders as they board a bus for Jackson, Miss., 1961.

In 1961, riders black and white headed South to test the region's segregation laws. Things turned violent in Alabama. Fifty years later, cities along the route are marking the rides with exhibit ...