There was to be a dinner at Dooky Chase Restaurant on May 17, 1961, to honor the Freedom Riders upon their arrival in New Orleans. PBS / Courtesy of CORBISFreedom Riders en route to New Orleans ...

As detailed in the impressive documentary Freedom Riders, Nash, a young black college student, stood up not only to segregation in the South, murderous racist mobs and nay-saying from within the ...

She was among a small group of students who restarted the Freedom Rides after the first attempt ... He said that she was always armed with enormous poster boards filled with timelines and bullet ...

In late April, Oprah Winfrey is flying her to Chicago for a show celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Freedom Riders ... I haven't completed - two movie scripts, an opera and a short story.

Freedom Riders is the powerful harrowing and ultimately inspirational story of six months in 1961 that changed America forever. From May until November 1961, more than 400 black and white ...

If her life was a movie, this is where it would begin ... She weighed 100 pounds and dropped out of college to become a Freedom Rider, a group of Black and white citizens who tested segregation ...

The Freedom Riders, a group of Black and white activists who sought to end racial segregation in the Deep South, faced dangerous resistance. Their peaceful actions were often met with violence.

Charges against four men who were arrested in 1947 after launching the first of the "freedom rides" to fight Jim Crow Laws have been posthumously dismissed by a North Carolina judge 75 years after ...

Sixty years ago, the Freedom Riders risked their lives to defend their rights. The law was on their side, but as an excerpt from a new book shows, Kennedy’s Justice Department learned the law ...

Broadway Records, in partnership with New York Theatre Barn Records, releases a world premiere cast recording of Freedom Riders: The Civil Rights Musical November 19. With music and lyrics by ...

Freedom Riders is the powerful harrowing and ultimately inspirational story of six months in 1961 that changed America forever. From May until November 1961, more than 400 black and white ...