in May 1961.Credit...The Birmingham News, via Associated Press The original Freedom Riders were 13 Black and white men and women of various ages from across the United States. Raymond Arsenault ...

Bettmann / Corbis On Sunday, May 14, 1961—Mother's Day—scores of angry white ... riders to escape the inferno. Even then some were pummeled with baseball bats as they fled. A few hours later ...

but all the Freedom Riders were in the same block. “We had wonderful discussions,” he said. “And the black Freedom Riders taught us white boys to sing, and we sang and we sang and we sang.

Groups of Black and white activists, many college students ... The Freedom Rides lasted for seven months. How many Freedom Riders were there? By one estimate, there were more than 436 riders ...

The “reverse freedom rides” of 1962 were meant to provoke Northern ... tickets offered to his family and other Black Southerners by members of the White Citizens’ Council, a segregationist ...

Charges against four men who were arrested in 1947 after launching the first of the “freedom rides” to ... In April 1947, 16 people – eight Black and eight White – set out on a tour ...

Bettmann / Corbis On Sunday, May 14, 1961—Mother's Day—scores of angry white ... riders to escape the inferno. Even then some were pummeled with baseball bats as they fled. A few hours later ...

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 ...