Etheridge, who grew up in Carthage, Mississippi, focuses on Freedom Riders who boarded buses to Jackson, Mississippi, from late May to mid-September 1961. He was just 4 years old at the time and ...

"No matter how many times they beat us up, segregation has still got to go." Shuttlesworth planned to join the Freedom Riders on their May 20 ride to Montgomery, but was arrested at the Birming ...

“The bus soon filled with black, acrid smoke,” recalls Freedom Rider Bigelow. “We had to get out somehow—there was no chance at all of surviving inside.” The waiting toughs beat up some ...

But I keep hearing these words. Freedom Riders, When I got off, went over to the phone booth, a pickup truck. White men pull up at the little bus station. They literally dragged Frank and the ...

More Freedom Riders stepped up to continue the campaign. “We recognized that if the Freedom Ride was ended right then after all that violence, southern white racists would think they could stop ...

Rev. Ralph Abernathy was a key figure in the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s and beyond. As the young pastor of First Baptist Church in Montgomery, Al, he and Martin Luther King, Jr. were ...

More: Freedom Riders traveled deep into the South in 1961 ... “They knew they were either going to get beat up or their bus burned. They knew that something was going to happen to them.

Tissue damage from the beating in Birmingham ... wife didn’t know he had been a Freedom Rider until about a decade after they ...

“My picketing at McCrory’s ended up with my getting arrested for the ... On May 4, 1961, national CORE launched “Freedom Rides” on a Trailways and Greyhound bus to test segregation on ...

She also told the story of an emotional moment she witnessed at the 60th anniversary of the Freedom Rider's trip when the daughter of a man who beat Person came up to him and apologized for her ...

Remembering the Freedom Riders & their impact on the Civil Rights MovementDuring a special session Friday leading up to the weekend celebration of Juneteenth, North Carolina Superior Court Judge ...