On Friday, she and 15 other members of the TSU Freedom Riders – including Atlanta residents William Harbour and Larry Hunter -- will be inducted into the National Black College Hall of Fame.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Forty-seven years ago, 14 black students from Tennessee State University were beaten and arrested during the Freedom Rides that helped integrate the South. For their courage ...

In 1961, 14 black students from Tennessee State University took part in the famed Freedom Rides, which sought to integrate public facilities and challenge Jim Crow laws in the South. White racists ...

John Patterson and the challenges of reconciliation After his arrest, he was one of 14 students expelled from Tennessee State University for participation in the Freedom Rides. Although he never ...

He was also one of 14 Freedom Riders expelled from Tennessee State University. "Be best for you not to come [home]," his mother warned him in 1961. With the exception of one brief visit ...

Cason and the school’s other 13 Freedom Riders received honorary degrees – three of them posthumously. Melvin Johnson, president of what’s now called Tennessee State University, observed ...

They never were. She was jailed for that act of civil disobedience, as well as for being among a group of TSU students who met Freedom Riders at Houston's old Union Station in August 1961 and ...

In 2008, Tennessee State University awarded her the other expelled Freedom Riders an honorary doctorate.” ...

D.C., was roaming Jefferson Street on TSU Homecoming Saturday working on a class project. Along the way, he stopped to admire and take pictures of the Freedom Riders mural. "We need things like ...

Charles Person, the youngest original member of the Freedom Riders, passed away at 82 in Fayetteville. At 18, Person joined ...