The freedom riders have suffered from many misconceptions and distortions about their role in the civil rights struggle. In the movie The Ladykillers, Tom Hanks describes the Freedom Riders to a young ...

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 ...

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 ...

The much-anticipated documentary “Freedom Riders,” which tells the story of a group of civil rights activists who 50 years ago challenged segregation in the American South, premieres at 9 p.m. EDT on ...

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 ...

“Lee Daniels’ The Butler” opened in mid-August, and, in the ensuing months, its namesake director has participated in countless Q&As and receptions both to promote the movie and to keep it ...

Freedom Ride' will be based on first-person accounts ... civil rights protesters crossed the Edmund Pettis Bridge. The movie will follow the moment Lewis and others decided to take a stand in ...

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 ...

The film, "Freedom Riders," recounts the 1961 crusade by daring young activists intent on ending segregated travel on interstate buses in the Deep South. The American Experience film, set to air ...

Representative John Lewis was among the 13 original Freedom Riders, who encountered violence and resistance as they rode buses across the South, challenging the nation’s segregation laws.