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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...